An Autoethnography of Fitting In: On Spinsterhood, Fatness, and
Backpacker Tourism is a feminist narrative about the social rules
of obedience and acquiescence to the norm - embodiment,
heteronormativity, partnering - and about fitting in, or not, with
those narratives. Phiona Stanley explores a period through her
twenties and thirties, living and travelling alone, foreign to
herself and the countries of her travel in all regards: white,
cisgender, sometimes thin, sometimes fat, sometimes partnered. This
fascinating volume uses these lived experiences, depicted through
first-person narrative storytelling, as a prism through which to
understand the subtle, social rules of gendered normative
expectations. It draws on contemporary journals, letters, and
photos, and features process-oriented sections that focus on the
methodological possibilities these offer, and on questions of
verisimilitude and subjectivity. Set in the context of
transnational work in Qatar, China, and elsewhere, and "road
status" as negotiated and performed among long-term backpacker
tourists, this book serves as an exemplar of how autoethnography
can illuminate socio-cultural normativities and their effects -
which are rarely explicit, but which nevertheless have great
potential to harm - while problematizing and rethinking the
meanings and semantic boundaries of weight, queerness, and
(hetero)normativity. Framed through reflexive autoethnography, with
a strong focus on ethics and feminist theories, this book will
appeal to students and researchers in autoethnography, qualitative
methods, and gender and women's studies.
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