The Hidden Lives of Big Beautiful Women (Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference)

Kotow, Crystal/ Friedman, May (EDT)

Palgrave Macmillan（2024/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 210 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783031544521

Full Description

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. 

Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Ways of Knowing and Seeing Fat.- Chapter 3: Methods and epistemologies.- Chapter 4: Interrupting Embodiment—Normalizing Gazes and Diet Culture in BBW.- Chapter 5: Bashes as Spaces for Healing Everyday Trauma of Fatphobia.- Chapter 6: Conclusion