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The 'Fat' Female Body - Couverture souple

Murray, S.

 
9781137579706: The 'Fat' Female Body
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1137579706 ISBN 13 : 9781137579706
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Synopsis

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 studies
by 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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Palgrave Macmillan
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1137579706
ISBN 13 
9781137579706
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
208
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