Queering Fat Embodiment (Hardcover, New Ed)

Cultural anxieties about fatness and the attendant stigmatisation of fat bodies, have lent a medical authority and cultural legitimacy to what can be described as 'fat-phobia'. Against the backdrop of the ever-growing medicalisation, pathologisation, and commodification of fatness, coupled with the moral panic over an alleged 'obesity epidemic', this volume brings together the latest scholarship from various critical disciplines to challenge existing ideas of fat and fat embodiment. Shedding light on the ways in which fat embodiment is lived, experienced, regulated and (re)produced across a range of cultural sites and contexts, Queering Fat Embodiment destabilises established ideas about fat bodies, making explicit the intersectionality of fat identities and thereby countering the assertion that fat studies has in recent years reproduced a white, ableist, heteronormative subjectivity in its analyses. A critical queer examination on fatness, Queering Fat Embodiment will be of interest to scholars of cultural and queer theory, sociology and media studies, working on questions of embodiment, stigmatisation and gender and sexuality.

General

Imprint:	Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Queer Interventions
Release date:	April 2014
First published:	2014
Editors:	Cat Pause • Jackie Wykes • Samantha Murray
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	170
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-4094-6542-3
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gay & Lesbian studies > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4094-6542-X
Barcode:	9781409465423

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