05479nam 22013333u 450 991045582740332120210212012454.00-520-93551-91-59734-505-9(CKB)111090860413132(EBL)223975(OCoLC)475929530(SSID)ssj0000113499(PQKBManifestationID)11133764(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000113499(PQKBWorkID)10098966(PQKB)11214229(MiAaPQ)EBC223975(EXLCZ)9911109086041313220130418d2001|||| u|| |engtxtccrBodies Out of Bounds[electronic resource] Fatness and TransgressionBerkeley University of California Press20011 online resource (369 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-21746-2 Acknowledgments; Editors' Introduction; 1 Fat Beauty; 2 A "Horror of Corpulence": Interrogating Bantingism and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Fat-Phobia; 3 Letting Ourselves Go: Making Room for the Fat Body in Feminist Scholarship; 4 Queering Fat Bodies/Politics; 5 Oscar Zeta Acosta's Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo: A Fat Man's Recipe for Chicano Revolution; 6 Resisting Venus: Negotiating Corpulence in Exercise Videos; 7 Fighting Abjection: Representing Fat Women; 8 Roscoe Arbuckle and the Scandal of Fatness; 9 Setting Free the Bears: Refiguring Fat Men on Television10 "It's not over until the fat lady sings": Comedy, the Carnivalesque, and Body Politics 11 Devouring Women: Corporeality and Autonomy in Fiction by Women Since the 1960's; 12 Sex and Fat Chics: Deterritorializing the Fat Female Body; 13 "She's so fat . . .": Facing the Fat Lady at Coney Island's Sideshows by the Seashore; 14 Fatties on Stage: Feminist Performances; 15 Divinity: A Dossier, a Performance Piece, a Little-Understood Emotion; Contributors; IndexSince World War II, when the diet and fitness industries promoted mass obsession with weight and body shape, fat has been a dirty word. In the United States, fat is seen as repulsive, funny, ugly, unclean, obscene, and above all as something to lose. Bodies Out of Bounds challenges these dominant perceptions by examining social representations of the fat body.BeautyBody imageBody image - Social aspects - MiscellaneaDiscrimination against overweight personsObesityObesity-- Social aspects-- MiscellaneaOverweight womenOverweight women - Social aspects - MiscellaneaPhysical-appearance-based biasPrejudicesOvernutritionOverweightPerceptionPsychology, SocialEstheticsNutrition DisordersBody WeightBehavior and Behavior MechanismsMental ProcessesThinkingPhilosophyPsychiatry and PsychologySigns and SymptomsBody SizeNutritional and Metabolic DiseasesPsychological Phenomena and ProcessesDiseasesBody Weights and MeasuresPathological Conditions, Signs and SymptomsBody ConstitutionPhysiological PhenomenaPhysical ExaminationDiagnostic Techniques and ProceduresDiagnosisAnalytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and EquipmentElectronic books.Beauty.Body image.Body image - Social aspects - Miscellanea.Discrimination against overweight persons.Obesity.Obesity-- Social aspects-- Miscellanea.Overweight women.Overweight women - Social aspects - Miscellanea.Physical-appearance-based bias.Prejudices.OvernutritionOverweightPerceptionPsychology, SocialEstheticsNutrition DisordersBody WeightBehavior and Behavior MechanismsMental ProcessesThinkingPhilosophyPsychiatry and PsychologySigns and SymptomsBody SizeNutritional and Metabolic DiseasesPsychological Phenomena and ProcessesDiseasesBody Weights and MeasuresPathological Conditions, Signs and SymptomsBody ConstitutionPhysiological PhenomenaPhysical ExaminationDiagnostic Techniques and ProceduresDiagnosisAnalytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment306.4616.3/98/0019Braziel Jana Evans629662LeBesco Kathleen917366AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910455827403321Bodies Out of Bounds2056720UNINA