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Excess and embodiment in contemporary women's writing /
The 'obese' female body has often been portrayed as the 'other' to the slender body. However, this process of 'othering', or viewing as different, has created a repressive discourse, where 'excess' has increasingly come to be studied as a 'physical abnorm...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Alemán |
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Stuttgart :
Ibidem,
2011.
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| Colección: | Studies in English literatures ;
17. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The 'obese' female body has often been portrayed as the 'other' to the slender body. However, this process of 'othering', or viewing as different, has created a repressive discourse, where 'excess' has increasingly come to be studied as a 'physical abnormality' or a signifier of a 'personality defect' in contemporary Western society. This book engages with the multifarious re-imaginings of the 'excessive' embodiment in contemporary women's writing, drawing specifically on the construction of this form of embodiment in the works of Fay Weldon, Jeanette Winterson, Margaret Atwood, Claude Tardat, |
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| Notas: | Based on the author's doctoral dissertation--Leeds University, 2008. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 198 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783838259789 3838259785 |
| ISSN: | 1614-4651 ; |