Bodies out of bounds : fatness and transgression
Title:
Bodies out of bounds : fatness and transgression
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Jana Evans Braziel and Kathleen LeBesco.
Publication Information:
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 360 pages)
ISBN:
9780520935518
9781417523863
9781597345057
Abstract:
Since World War II, when the diet and fitness industries promoted mass obsession with weight and body shape, fat has been a dirty word. In the United States, fat is seen as repulsive, funny, ugly, unclean, obscene, and above all as something to lose. Bodies Out of Bounds challenges these dominant perceptions by examining social representations of the fat body.
Reading Level:
1480 L Lexile
Local Note:
UAF Rasmuson Library Ebook Central subscription access.
UAS/JPL: EBSCO Academic Subscription.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Term:
Contents:
Fat beauty / Richard Klein -- A "horror of corulence": interrogating Bantingism and Mid-nineteenth-century fat-phobia / Joyce L. Huff -- Letting ourselves go: making room for the fat body in feminist scholarship / Cecilia Hartley -- Queering fat bodies/politics / Kathleen LeBesco -- Oscar Zeta Acosta's 'autobiography of a brown buffalo': A fat man's recipe for Chicano revolution / Marcia Chamberlain -- Resisting Venus: negotiating corpulence in exercise videos / Antonia Losano and Brenda a. Risch -- Fighting abjection: representing fat women / Le'a Kent -- Roscoe Arbuckle and the scandal of fatness / Neda Ulaby -- Setting free the bears; refiguring fat men on television / Jerry Mosher -- "It's not over until the fat lady sings": comedy, the carnivalesque and body politics / Angela Stukator -- Devouring women: corporeality and autonomy in fiction by women since the 1960s / Sarah Shieff.
Sex and fat chics: deterritorializing the fat female body / Jana Evans Braziel -- "She's so fat ... ": facing the fat lady at Coney Island's Sideshows by the seashore / Sharon Mazer -- Fatties on Stage: feminist performances / Petra Kuppers -- Divinity: a dossier, a performance piece, a little-understood emotion / Michael Moon and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.
Technical Details:
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Language:
English.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.