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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Table of Contents:
- 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
- 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.