Bodies out of bounds : fatness and transgression / edited by Jana Evans Braziel and Kathleen LeBesco.

Since World War II, when the diet and fitness industries promoted mass obsession with weight and body shape, fat has been a dirty word. In the United States, fat is seen as repulsive, funny, ugly, unclean, obscene, and above all as something to lose. Bodies Out of Bounds challenges these dominant pe...

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Other Authors: Braziel, Jana Evans, 1967- (Editor), LeBesco, Kathleen, 1970- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2001]
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264 1 |a Berkeley :  |b University of California Press,  |c [2001] 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Fat beauty / Richard Klein -- A "horror of corulence": interrogating Bantingism and Mid-nineteenth-century fat-phobia / Joyce L. Huff -- Letting ourselves go: making room for the fat body in feminist scholarship / Cecilia Hartley -- Queering fat bodies/politics / Kathleen LeBesco -- Oscar Zeta Acosta's 'autobiography of a brown buffalo': A fat man's recipe for chicano revolution / Marcia Chamberlain -- Resisting Venus: negotiating corpulence in exercise videos / Antonia Losano and Brenda a. Risch -- Fighting abjection: representing fat women / Le'a Kent -- Roscoe Arbuckle and the scandal of fatness / Neda Ulaby -- Setting free the bears; refiguring fat men on television / Jerry Mosher -- "It's not over until the fat lady sings": comedy, the carnivalesque and body politics / Angela Stukator -- Devouring women: corporeality and autonomy in fiction by women since the 1960s / Sarah Shieff -- 
505 0 |a Sex and fat chics: deterritorializing the fat female body / Jana Evans Braziel -- "She's so fat ... ": facing the fat lady at Coney Island's Sideshows by the seashore / Sharon Mazer -- Fatties on Stage: feminist performances / Petra Kuppers -- Divinity: a dossier, a performance piece, a little-understood emotion / Michael Moon and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. 
520 |a Since World War II, when the diet and fitness industries promoted mass obsession with weight and body shape, fat has been a dirty word. In the United States, fat is seen as repulsive, funny, ugly, unclean, obscene, and above all as something to lose. Bodies Out of Bounds challenges these dominant perceptions by examining social representations of the fat body. 
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650 0 |a Body image  |x Social aspects  |v Miscellanea  |9 640424 
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650 0 |a Discrimination against overweight persons  |v Miscellanea  |9 680860 
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700 1 |a LeBesco, Kathleen,  |d 1970-  |e editor.  |9 437699 
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