The 'Fat' Female Body (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781137579706)

Vendor: S. Murray
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Format: Paperback
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The 'Fat' Female Body

$54.99

The 'Fat' Female Body

$54.99
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: S. Murray
ISBN-10: 1137579706
ISBN-13: 9781137579706
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/30/2008
Pages: 196
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d
By S. Murray
By S. Murray
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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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