Queering 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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Farnham :
Ashgate Publishing Ltd,
2014
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| Series: | Queer interventions.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures; About the Editors; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Why Queering Fat Embodiment?; 2 Queering Body Size and Shape: Performativity, the Closet, Shame and Orientation; 3 Becoming Travolta; 4 The Performance of Fat: The Spectre Outside the House of Desire; 5 On Fatness and Fluidity: A Meditation; 6 Chubby Boys with Strap-Ons: Queering Fat Transmasculine Embodiment; 7 Causing a Commotion: Queering Fat in Cyberspace; 8 Flaunting Fat: Sex with the Lights On.
- 9 Queering the Linkages and Divergences: The Relationship between Fatness and Disability and the Hope for a Livable World10 Bear Arts Naked: Queer Activism and the Fat Male Body; 11 Fashion's 'Forgotten Woman': How Fat Bodies Queer Fashion and Consumption; Index.
