The Hidden Lives of Big Beautiful Women

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. 

Sommario

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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Crystal Kotow
• Con la collaborazione di: May Friedman (Editore)
• Editore: Springer, Berlin
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.01.2025
• EAN: 9783031544552
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3154455-2
• Pagine: 210
• Dimensioni: 148 mm x 13 mm x 210 mm
• Peso: 301 g
• Illustrazioni: XVII, 210 p.
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche