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The 'fat' female body /

0230542484

0230542581

9780230542488

9780230542587

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The 'fat' female body /

[Book]

Samantha Murray.

New York :

Palgrave Macmillan,

2008.

viii, 196 pages ;

23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-188) and index.

Introduction: The 'fat' female body: Pathological, political and phenomenological imaginings -- part 1. Pathologising fatness: Medical authority and popular culture. Positioning 'fatness' in our cultural imaginary ; The 'normal' and the 'pathological': 'obesity' and the dis-eased 'fat' body ; 'Fat' bodies as virtual confessors and medical morality -- part 2. 'Fat' backlash: Activism and identity politics. Fed up with fat-phobia: coming out as 'fat' ; Fat pride and the insistence on the voluntarist subject ; Fattening up Foucault: A 'fat' counter-aesthetic? -- part 3. 'Fat' 'Being': Rethinking the 'Body-Subject' with Merleau-Ponty. Throwing off discourse? Questions of ambivalence and the mind/body split ; ('Fat') 'Being-in-the-world': Merleau-Ponty's account of the 'body-subject' ; Embodiment as ambiguity: 'fatness' as it is lived -- An afterword: 'Fat' bodily being?

Positioning 'fatness' in our cultural imaginary -- The 'normal' and the 'pathological' : 'obesity' and the dis-eased 'fat' body -- 'Fat' bodies as virtual confessors and medical morality -- Fed up with fat-phobia : coming out as 'fat' -- Fat pride and the insistence on the voluntarist subject -- Fattening up Foucault : a 'fat' counter-aesthetic? -- Throwing off discourse? Questions of ambivalence and the mind/body split -- ('Fat') 'being-in-the-world' : Merleau-Ponty's account of the 'body-subject' -- Embodiment as ambiguity : 'fatness' as it is lived -- An afterword : 'fat' bodily being?

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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 analyzing the assumptions that inform anti-fat attitudes in the West, this book 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 knowledges(s) of 'fatness', and politics of embodiment, bu also the possibility of (re)reading 'fat' bodies to foster more productive social relations.

'Fat' female body.

Body image in women.

Obesity in women-- Political aspects.

Obesity in women-- Social aspects.

Body Image.

Obesity.

Social Desirability.

Social Perception.

Women.

Body image in women.

Obesity in women-- Social aspects.

Murray, Samantha,1978-

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