{"product_id":"fatness-and-femininity-jen-almjeld-9781666974720","title":"Fatness and Femininity: Negotiating Narratives of Girlhood Online","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFatness and Femininity: Negotiating Narratives of Girlhood Online\u003c\/i\u003e traces popular narratives of femininity, fatness, and body positivity available to girls on popular social media spaces Instagram and TikTok. \u003c\/b\u003eUsing rhetorical analysis of keyword searches, Jen Almjeld argues that social media positions successful femininity as fit, fashionable, agreeable, sexually alluring, and always striving and defines fatness as failure, specifically as unhealthy, lazy, irresponsible, unattractive, and humorous. With two decades of experience researching and working with girls, Almjeld argues that despite the promise of body positivity to resist such narratives, the movement has been co-opted and watered down and is now little more than another way to teach girls that their bodies are not good enough. While our culture has much to say about proper ways to be and do girl, there are few scripts available for acceptable ways to be fat, particularly in a body gendered feminine. This text encourages more open, critical conversation of fatness via a \"fat girl gaze\" to better understand ways girls and women in particular write and are written by identity narratives around them. This book challenges the socially constructed and consumerist notions of fatness that lead to fatphobia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jen Almjeld\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1666974722\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781666974720\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/25\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Jen Almjeld","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48852463354111,"sku":"9781666974720","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fatness-and-femininity-jen-almjeld-9781666974720","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}