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The Hidden Lives of Big Beautiful Women

English · Paperback / Softback

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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. 

List of 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

Product details

Authors Crystal Kotow
Assisted by May Friedman (Editor)
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.01.2025
 
EAN 9783031544552
ISBN 978-3-0-3154455-2
No. of pages 210
Dimensions 148 mm x 13 mm x 210 mm
Weight 301 g
Illustrations XVII, 210 p.
Series Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

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