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Body stories : in and out and with and through fat /

Body stories capture a nuanced, interconnected, interactive and complex telling of our understanding, perception and experience of and through our bodies. Plenty has been published on body image but image suggests a static fixed body unmitigated through our social interactions and varying times and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Andrew, Jill, 1978- (Editor ), Friedman, May, 1975- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bradford, Ontario : Demeter Press, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Because I'm Fat, I Don't Deserve Satisfaction? A Young Fat Woman's Experience of Sex
  • 2. "Neither Sari nor Sorry": An Open Letter to the Indian Yummy Mummy
  • 3. Beautiful/Ugly
  • 4. "I'm Not Fat. I'm Pregnant": A Critical Discussion of Current Debates in Body Size, Fatness, Pregnancy, and Motherhood
  • 5. Eating While Fat: Mapping the Journey
  • 6. (Not) Too Fat to Tango
  • 7. "Who's Afraid of the Big Fat Feminist": An Autoethnographic Account of Fatness in Academic Feminist Spaces
  • 8. The Rock Goddess in Large
  • 9. The Unpopularity of Being Fat and Black in Popular Culture: A Case Study on Gabourey Sidibe
  • 10. She Says
  • 11. The Elephant in the (Class)room
  • 12. "Your Wheelchair Is So Slim": A Meditation on the Social Enactment of Beauty and Disability
  • 13. My Body Is My Business
  • 14. On Learning Self-Love: How One Curvy, Disabled Brown Femme Navigates the Body as a Site of Daily Struggle of Living with/in Pain
  • 15. the line
  • 16. Just What the Doctor Ordered? Interrogating the Narrative of Curing the Fat Body
  • 17. Body Lessons
  • 18. "Here Comes Fat May": Learning and Relearning to Love My Body
  • 19. My New Skin-Tattoos and Skin-Deep Body Love
  • 20. A Call for Self-Love
  • 21. Self-Acceptance: An Unfinished, Intergenerational Story
  • 22. Braced
  • 23. Lessons Learned from Fat Women on Television
  • 24. Embodied: The Female Body as a Repository of Experience
  • 25. Like It or Not: A Dose of Fat Activism for the Medical Community
  • 26. "Men Are Not Dogs. They Don't Throw Themselves on the Bones": Fat as Desirable
  • 27. Two Poems
  • 28. Being Gentle with Myself: A Lifelong Work in Progress
  • 29. Interpretation
  • 30. We Are the Seeds: Reflections and Conversations on Beauty, Body Image, and Identity with Urban Indigenous Women in Toronto
  • 31. Bowel Blues, Bowel Blows.