Queering Fat Embodiment (queer Interventions)
by Samantha Murray /
2014 / English / PDF
2.4 MB Download
Cultural anxieties about fatness and the attendant stigmatisation
of fat bodies, have lent a medical authority and cultural
legitimacy to what can be described as 'fat-phobia'. Against the
backdrop of the ever-growing medicalisation, pathologisation, and
commodification of fatness, coupled with the moral panic over an
alleged 'obesity epidemic', this volume brings together the latest
scholarship from various critical disciplines to challenge existing
ideas of fat and fat embodiment.Shedding light on the ways in which
fat embodiment is lived, experienced, regulated and (re)produced
across a range of cultural sites and contexts, Queering Fat
Embodiment destabilises established ideas about fat bodies, making
explicit the intersectionality of fat identities and thereby
countering the assertion that fat studies has in recent years
reproduced a white, ableist, heteronormative subjectivity in its
analyses. A critical queer examination on fatness, Queering Fat
Embodiment will be of interest to scholars of cultural and queer
theory, sociology and media studies, working on questions of
embodiment, stigmatisation and gender and sexuality.
Cultural anxieties about fatness and the attendant stigmatisation
of fat bodies, have lent a medical authority and cultural
legitimacy to what can be described as 'fat-phobia'. Against the
backdrop of the ever-growing medicalisation, pathologisation, and
commodification of fatness, coupled with the moral panic over an
alleged 'obesity epidemic', this volume brings together the latest
scholarship from various critical disciplines to challenge existing
ideas of fat and fat embodiment.Shedding light on the ways in which
fat embodiment is lived, experienced, regulated and (re)produced
across a range of cultural sites and contexts, Queering Fat
Embodiment destabilises established ideas about fat bodies, making
explicit the intersectionality of fat identities and thereby
countering the assertion that fat studies has in recent years
reproduced a white, ableist, heteronormative subjectivity in its
analyses. A critical queer examination on fatness, Queering Fat
Embodiment will be of interest to scholars of cultural and queer
theory, sociology and media studies, working on questions of
embodiment, stigmatisation and gender and sexuality.
