"This is an exceptional collection--the subject is of obvious
importance, yet terribly undertheorized and unexamined. I know of
no other work that offers what this collection provides."--Marcia
Millman, author of "Such a Pretty Face: Being Fat in America
." . . A valuable contribution to scholarly debates on the place
of excessive bodies in contemporary culture. This book promises to
enrich all areas of inquiry related to the politics of
bodies."--Carole Spitzack, author of "Confessing Excess: Women and
the Politics of Body Reduction
"This anthology includes a wide range of perceptive and original
essays, which explore and analyze the underlying ideologies that
have made fat "incorrect." Echoing the spirit of the
nineteenth-century adage about children who should be neither seen
nor heard, some of the authors powerfully remind us that we keep
"bodies out of bound" silenced and unseen-unless, of course, we
need to peek at the comic or grotesque."--Raquel Salgado Scherr,
co-author of "Face Value: The Politics of Beauty
"Through textual analyses, video/film analyses, television
theory, and literary theory, this collection demonstrates the
various ways in which dominant representations of fat and
corpulence have been both demonized and rendered invisible. . . .
This volume will be a crucial corollary to work on the tyranny of
slenderness; a collection of different perspectives on the fat body
is sorely missing in women's studies, communication, and media
studies."--Sarah Banet-Weiser, author of "The Most Beautiful Girl
in the World: Beauty Pageants and National Identity
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