The Hidden Lives of Big Beautiful Women by Kotow, Crystal

The Hidden Lives of Big Beautiful Women (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031544521)

Vendor: Crystal Kotow
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
$129.99
$129.99
$129.99
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The Hidden Lives of Big Beautiful Women by Kotow, Crystal

The Hidden Lives of Big Beautiful Women

$129.99
The Hidden Lives of Big Beautiful Women by Kotow, Crystal

The Hidden Lives of Big Beautiful Women

$129.99
Format: Hardcover
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This book is a deep dive into the largely unexplored space of BBW "bashes"--multi-day gatherings of fat women and their admirers. Using a range of feminist theories of embodiment and affect, the project is guided by autoethnography and in-depth interviews with twelve participants. Participant experiences are first analyzed with a key focus on experiences that cause grief and disenfranchisement; subsequently, the book looks at experiences that may be radical or revelatory. The book does not seek to either villainize or valorize BBW spaces but instead sheds a bright light on the experience of this cultural subspace and all it may offer to analyses of fat life.

Author: Crystal Kotow
ISBN-10: 3031544528
ISBN-13: 9783031544521
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 04/13/2024
Pages: 210
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.56d
By Crystal Kotow
By Crystal Kotow
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The incomparable Crystal Kotow was a brilliant writer, activist, and educator whose research explored fat women's relationships with their bodies. She got her PhD from York University and was a self-identified fat feminist killjoy who practiced radical vulnerability in her activism, storytelling, and community building.
May Friedman is a faculty member at Toronto Metropolitan University. Much of May's work explores issues of fat activism and weight stigma in many different settings. Using a range of arts-based methods including digital storytelling as well as analyses of treasured garments, May has explored meaning making and representation in relation to embodiment and experience.

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