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Titolo: | Bodies out of bounds : fatness and transgression / / edited by Jana Evans Braziel and Kathleen LeBesco |
Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (369 p.) |
Disciplina: | 616.3/98/0019 |
Soggetto topico: | Body image - Social aspects |
Discrimination against overweight persons | |
Obesity - Social aspects | |
Overweight women - Social aspects | |
Physical-appearance-based bias | |
Altri autori: | BrazielJana Evans <1967-> LeBescoKathleen <1970-> |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 Television |
10 "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; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Since 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Bodies out of bounds |
ISBN: | 0-520-93551-9 |
1-59734-505-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910828139403321 |
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