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Revolting Bodies?: The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity
Kathleen Lebesco
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Description for Revolting Bodies?: The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity
Paperback. This work examines a number of sites of struggle over the cultural meaning of fatness. It is grounded in scholarship on identity politics, the social construction of beauty, and the subversion of hegemonic medical ideas about the dangers of fatness. Num Pages: 192 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
Viewed as both unhealthy and unattractive, fat people are widely represented in popular culture and in interpersonal interactions as revolting - as agents of abhorrence and disgust. This work argues that if we think about ""revolting"" in a different way, we can recognize fatness as not simply an aesthetic state or a medical condition, but a political one. If we think of revolting in terms of overthrowing authority, rebelling, protesting, and rejecting, then corpulence carries a whole new weight as a subversive cultural practice that calls into question received notions about health, beauty, and nature. It examines a number of ... Read more
Viewed as both unhealthy and unattractive, fat people are widely represented in popular culture and in interpersonal interactions as revolting - as agents of abhorrence and disgust. This work argues that if we think about ""revolting"" in a different way, we can recognize fatness as not simply an aesthetic state or a medical condition, but a political one. If we think of revolting in terms of overthrowing authority, rebelling, protesting, and rejecting, then corpulence carries a whole new weight as a subversive cultural practice that calls into question received notions about health, beauty, and nature. It examines a number of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558494299
SKU
V9781558494299
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