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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.
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.
Somatechnics highlights the reciprocal bond between the sAma and
the techne of 'the body' and the techniques in which bodies are
formed and transformed as crafted responses to the world around us.
Structured around the themes of the governance of social bodies,
the gendering of sexed bodies and the techniques associated with
the formation of the self, Somatechnics presents a groundbreaking
study of body modification. Its contributions to the work of
Spinoza, Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, Deluze and Guattari make it a
must read for scholars of sociology, cultural and queer studies and
philosophy.
Somatechnics highlights the reciprocal bond between the sAma and
the techne of 'the body' and the techniques in which bodies are
formed and transformed as crafted responses to the world around us.
Structured around the themes of the governance of social bodies,
the gendering of sexed bodies and the techniques associated with
the formation of the self, Somatechnics presents a groundbreaking
study of body modification. Its contributions to the work of
Spinoza, Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, Deluze and Guattari make it a
must read for scholars of sociology, cultural and queer studies and
philosophy.
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My Friend John (Paperback)
Lorie Deworken; Photographs by Pete Deworken, Samantha Murray
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R272
Discovery Miles 2 720
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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A Great Father's Day Gift MY FRIEND JOHN honors the household
fixture that's often overlooked and rarely appreciated. MY FRIEND
JOHN is a collection of off-color, ... slightly vulgar... sometimes
corny... one-line wise cracks about the unsung hero who's always
there to help us out of a tight squeeze. Intended for those times
of undivided attention in the "reading room," you'll find it hard
to leave this bathroom reader sitting on the throne.
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