The 'Fat' Female Body

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-349-36012-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 270 g

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 studiesby 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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Murray, S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Samantha Murray is a Senior Researcher in the Gendered Violence Research Network at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Prior to this, Samantha lectured in Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, Australia, and later worked in the not-for-profit sector. She has published several journal articles and book chapters on embodiment, and the discursive constructions of normalcy and pathology.