Bodies out of bounds : fatness and transgression /

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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 pe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Braziel, Jana Evans, 1967-, LeBesco, Kathleen, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.
Temas:
Obesity > Social aspects > Miscellanea.
Overweight women > Social aspects > Miscellanea.
Body image > Social aspects > Miscellanea.
Physical-appearance-based bias > Miscellanea.
Discrimination against overweight persons > Miscellanea.
Obesity > Social aspects.
Physical-appearance-based bias.
Overweight women > Social aspects.
Body image > Social aspects.
Aesthetics.
Prejudices.
Obesity > psychology
Beauty
Body Image
Prejudice
Obésité > Aspect social.
Discrimination fondée sur l'apparence physique.
Discrimination à l'égard des personnes en surpoids.
Femmes en surpoids > Aspect social.
Image du corps > Aspect social.
Obésité > Aspect social > Miscellanées.
Femmes en surpoids > Aspect social > Miscellanées.
Image du corps > Aspect social > Miscellanées.
Discrimination fondée sur l'apparence physique > Miscellanées.
Discrimination à l'égard des personnes en surpoids > Miscellanées.
Esthétique.
Préjugés.
MEDICAL > Endocrinology & Metabolism.
MEDICAL > Nutrition.
Prejudices
Aesthetics
Body image > Social aspects
Discrimination against overweight persons
Obesity > Social aspects
Physical-appearance-based bias
Zwaarlijvigheid.
Beeldvorming.
Sociale aspecten.
Trivia and miscellanea
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Fat beauty / Richard Klein
  • A "horror of corulence": interrogating Bantingism and Mid-nineteenth-century fat-phobia / Joyce L. Huff
  • Letting ourselves go: making room for the fat body in feminist scholarship / Cecilia Hartley
  • Queering fat bodies/politics / Kathleen LeBesco
  • Oscar Zeta Acosta's 'autobiography of a brown buffalo': A fat man's recipe for Chicano revolution / Marcia Chamberlain
  • Resisting Venus: negotiating corpulence in exercise videos / Antonia Losano and Brenda a. Risch
  • Fighting abjection: representing fat women / Le'a Kent
  • Roscoe Arbuckle and the scandal of fatness / Neda Ulaby
  • Setting free the bears; refiguring fat men on television / Jerry Mosher
  • "It's not over until the fat lady sings": comedy, the carnivalesque and body politics / Angela Stukator
  • Devouring women: corporeality and autonomy in fiction by women since the 1960s / Sarah Shieff.
  • Sex and fat chics: deterritorializing the fat female body / Jana Evans Braziel
  • "She's so fat ... ": facing the fat lady at Coney Island's Sideshows by the seashore / Sharon Mazer
  • Fatties on Stage: feminist performances / Petra Kuppers
  • Divinity: a dossier, a performance piece, a little-understood emotion / Michael Moon and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.

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