Queering Fat Embodiment

Queering Fat Embodiment

by Samantha MurrayJackie Wykes and Cat Pausé
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 23/05/2016

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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.

ISBN:
9781317072485
9781317072485
Category:
Sexual behaviour
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
23-05-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis

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