03380nam 22006254a 450 991082813940332120200520144314.00-520-93551-91-59734-505-9(CKB)111090860413132(EBL)223975(OCoLC)475929530(SSID)ssj0000113499(PQKBManifestationID)11133764(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000113499(PQKBWorkID)10098966(PQKB)11214229(MiAaPQ)EBC223975(EXLCZ)9911109086041313220010306d2001 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrBodies out of bounds fatness and transgression /edited by Jana Evans Braziel and Kathleen LeBesco1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20011 online resource (369 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-21746-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Body imageSocial aspectsMiscellaneaDiscrimination against overweight personsMiscellaneaObesitySocial aspectsMiscellaneaOverweight womenSocial aspectsMiscellaneaPhysical-appearance-based biasMiscellaneaBody imageSocial aspectsDiscrimination against overweight personsObesitySocial aspectsOverweight womenSocial aspectsPhysical-appearance-based bias616.3/98/0019Braziel Jana Evans1967-629662LeBesco Kathleen1970-1754463MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828139403321Bodies out of bounds4190857UNINA