"This is an exceptional collection--the subject is of obvious importance, yet terribly undertheorized and unexamined. I know of no other work that offers what this collection provides."--Marcia Millman, author of "Such a Pretty Face: Being Fat in America" ." . . A valuable contribution to scholarly debates on the place of excessive bodies in contemporary culture. This book promises to enrich all areas of inquiry related to the politics of bodies."--Carole Spitzack, author of "Confessing Excess: Women and the Politics of ...
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"This is an exceptional collection--the subject is of obvious importance, yet terribly undertheorized and unexamined. I know of no other work that offers what this collection provides."--Marcia Millman, author of "Such a Pretty Face: Being Fat in America" ." . . A valuable contribution to scholarly debates on the place of excessive bodies in contemporary culture. This book promises to enrich all areas of inquiry related to the politics of bodies."--Carole Spitzack, author of "Confessing Excess: Women and the Politics of Body Reduction" "This anthology includes a wide range of perceptive and original essays, which explore and analyze the underlying ideologies that have made fat "incorrect." Echoing the spirit of the nineteenth-century adage about children who should be neither seen nor heard, some of the authors powerfully remind us that we keep "bodies out of bound" silenced and unseen-unless, of course, we need to peek at the comic or grotesque."--Raquel Salgado Scherr, co-author of "Face Value: The Politics of Beauty" "Through textual analyses, video/film analyses, television theory, and literary theory, this collection demonstrates the various ways in which dominant representations of fat and corpulence have been both demonized and rendered invisible. . . . This volume will be a crucial corollary to work on the tyranny of slenderness; a collection of different perspectives on the fat body is sorely missing in women's studies, communication, and media studies."--Sarah Banet-Weiser, author of "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World: Beauty Pageants and National Identity"
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Textual illustrations. Minor rubbing. VG. 23x15cm, viii, 360 pp. Contains 15 papers. Includes: R. Klein: "Fat Beauty"; J.L. Huff: "A ' Horror of Corpulence': Interrogating Bantingism and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Fat-Phobia"; C. Hartley: "Letting Ourselves Go: Making Room for the Fat Body in Feminist Scholarship"; K. Lebesco: "Queering Fat Bodies/Politics"; M. Chamberlain: "Oscar Zeta Acosta's Recipe for Chicano Revolution"; A. Losano & B.A. Risch: "Resisting Venus: Negotiating Corpulence in Exercise Videos"; L. Kent: "Fighting Abjection: Representing Fat Women"; N. Ulaby: "Roscoe Arbuckle and the Scandal of Fatness"; J. Mosher: "Setting Free the Bears: Refiguring Fat Men on Television"; A. Stukator: " 'It's not over until the fat lady sings': Comedy, the Carnivalesque, and Body Politics"; S. Shieff: "Devouring Women: Coporeality and Autonomy in Fiction by Women Since the 1960s"; J.E. Braziel: "Sex and Fat Chics: Deterritorializing the Fat Female Body"; S. Mazer: " 'She's so fat...': Facing the Fat Lady at Coney Island's Sideshows by the Seashore"; P. Kuppers: "'Fatties on Stage: Feminist Performances"; M. Moon & E.K. Sedgwick: "Divinity: A Dossier, a Performance Piece, a Little-Understood Emotion".
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New. Examines social representations of the fat body. This work questions discursive constructions of fatness while analyzing the politics and power of corpulence and addressing the absence of fat people in media representations of the body. Editor(s): Braziel, Jana Evans; LeBesco, Kathleen. Num Pages: 368 pages, 6 black-and-white photographs, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476. 2001. 1st Edition. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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