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aesthetics of protest
alternative body aesthetics
anti-diet culture
anti-fat bias
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beauty myths and ideology
biopolitics of health
bodily agency and freedom
bodily autonomy movements
body diversity advocacy
body image activism
body positivity
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consumer culture and the body
corporeal subjectivity
critical fat discourse
critique of beauty standards
critique of wellness culture
cultural rebellion against normativity
cultural studies of health
decolonizing beauty norms
digital activism communities
disability and body autonomy
embodied rebellion
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fat acceptance movement
fat fashion and identity
fat liberation
fat studies scholarship
feminist body politics
feminist cultural criticism
feminist resistance narratives
feminist theory of the body
gender and citizenship
gendered citizenship
health at every size movement
identity politics and resistance
intersection of class and body politics
intersectional identity studies
media portrayals of fatness
medicalization of obesity
neoliberal subjectivity
performative rebellion
performativity of fat identity
politics of appearance
power and the physical self
queer fat activism
queer theory and body politics
reimagining health and beauty
resistance through representation
sexuality and fatness
shame and visibility
social construction of the body
social justice and embodiment
sociology of the body
stigma and embodiment
subversive self-representation
visual culture and the body
Product details
- ISBN 9781558494299
- Weight: 279g
- Dimensions: 152 x 224mm
- Publication Date: 16 Dec 2003
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Viewed as both unhealthy and unattractive, fat people are widely represented in popular culture and in interpersonal interactions as revolting - as agents of abhorrence and disgust. This work argues that if we think about ""revolting"" in a different way, we can recognize fatness as not simply an aesthetic state or a medical condition, but a political one. If we think of revolting in terms of overthrowing authority, rebelling, protesting, and rejecting, then corpulence carries a whole new weight as a subversive cultural practice that calls into question received notions about health, beauty, and nature. It examines a number of sites of struggle over the cultural meaning of fatness. It is grounded in scholarship on identity politics, the social construction of beauty, and the subversion of hegemonic medical ideas about the dangers of fatness. The text explains how the redefinition of fat identities has been undertaken by people who challenge conventional understandings of nature, health, and beauty and, in so doing, alter their individual and collective relationships to power.
