The ’Fat’ Female Body
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ISBN-13:
9780230542587
Veröffentl:
2008
Erscheinungsdatum:
30.09.2008
Seiten:
196
Autor:
S. Murray
Gewicht:
363 g
Format:
216x137x18 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Investigating the current interest in obesity and fatness, this book explores the problems and ambiguities that form the lived experience of 'fat' women in contemporary Western society. Engaging with dominant ideas about 'fatness', and analysing the assumptions that inform anti-fat attitudes in the West, The 'Fat' Female Body explores the moral panic over the 'obesity epidemic', and the intersection of medicine and morality in pathologising 'fat' bodies. It contributes to the emerging field of fat studies by offering not only alternative understandings of subjectivity, the (re)production of public knowledge(s) of 'fatness', and politics of embodiment, but also the possibility of (re)reading 'fat' bodies to foster more productive social relations.
Exploring the current interest in obesity and fatness, this book looks at the experiences of 'fat' women in contemporary Western society, analyzing the assumptions that inform anti-fat attitudes
Introduction: The 'Fat' Female Body: Pathological, Political and Phenomenological ImaginingsPART 1Positioning 'Fatness' in Our Cultural ImaginaryThe 'Normal' and the 'Pathological': 'Obesity' and the Dis-eased 'Fat' Body'Fat' Bodies as Virtual Confessors and Medical MoralityPART 2Fed up with Fat-Phobia: Coming Out as 'Fat'Fat Pride and the Insistence on the Voluntarist SubjectFattening Up Foucault: A 'Fat' Counter-Aesthetic?PART 3Throwing Off Discourse? Questions of Ambivalence and the Mind/Body Split('Fat') 'Being-In-The-World': Merleau-Ponty's account of the 'body-subject'Embodiment as Ambiguity: 'Fatness' as it is LivedAfterword: 'Fat' Bodily Being
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