Queering Fat Embodiment
eBook - ePub

Queering Fat Embodiment

  1. 170 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Queering Fat Embodiment

About this book

Cultural anxieties about fatness and the attendant stigmatisation of fat bodies, have lent a medical authority and cultural legitimacy to what can be described as 'fat-phobia'. Against the backdrop of the ever-growing medicalisation, pathologisation, and commodification of fatness, coupled with the moral panic over an alleged 'obesity epidemic', this volume brings together the latest scholarship from various critical disciplines to challenge existing ideas of fat and fat embodiment. Shedding light on the ways in which fat embodiment is lived, experienced, regulated and (re)produced across a range of cultural sites and contexts, Queering Fat Embodiment destabilises established ideas about fat bodies, making explicit the intersectionality of fat identities and thereby countering the assertion that fat studies has in recent years reproduced a white, ableist, heteronormative subjectivity in its analyses. A critical queer examination on fatness, Queering Fat Embodiment will be of interest to scholars of cultural and queer theory, sociology and media studies, working on questions of embodiment, stigmatisation and gender and sexuality.

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Yes, you can access Queering Fat Embodiment by Cat Pausé, Jackie Wykes, Samantha Murray, Cat Pausé,Jackie Wykes,Samantha Murray in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Psychology & Health Policy. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781409465423
eBook ISBN
9781317072485
Edition
1
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Health Policy
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. About the Editors
  7. Notes on Contributors
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. 1 Introduction: Why Queering Fat Embodiment?
  10. 2 Queering Body Size and Shape: Performativity, the Closet, Shame and Orientation
  11. 3 Becoming Travolta
  12. 4 The Performance of Fat: The Spectre Outside the House of Desire
  13. 5 On Fatness and Fluidity: A Meditation
  14. 6 Chubby Boys with Strap-Ons: Queering Fat Transmasculine Embodiment
  15. 7 Causing a Commotion: Queering Fat in Cyberspace
  16. 8 Flaunting Fat: Sex with the Lights On
  17. 9 Queering the Linkages and Divergences: The Relationship between Fatness and Disability and the Hope for a Livable World
  18. 10 Bear Arts Naked: Queer Activism and the Fat Male Body
  19. 11 Fashion’s ‘Forgotten Woman’: How Fat Bodies Queer Fashion and Consumption
  20. Index