Table of Contents: Bodies out of bounds :

Other Authors:	Braziel, Jana Evans,
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.
Subjects:	Obesity > Social aspects Overweight women > Social aspects Body image > Social aspects Physical-appearance-based bias Discrimination against overweight persons Obesity > psychology. Beauty. Body Image. Prejudice. Obesidad > Aspectos sociales. Mujeres con sobrepeso > Aspectos sociales. Imagen corporal > Aspectos sociales. Obésité > Aspect social. Discrimination fondée sur l'apparence physique. Discrimination à l'égard des obèses. Femmes obèses > Aspect social. Image du corps > Aspect social. MEDICAL > Endocrinology & Metabolism. MEDICAL > Nutrition. Zwaarlijvigheid. Beeldvorming.
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Table of Contents:

Fat beauty / Richard Klein
A "horror of corulence": interrogating Bantingism and Mid-nineteenth-century fat-phobia / Joyce L. Huff
Letting ourselves go: making room for the fat body in feminist scholarship / Cecilia Hartley
Queering fat bodies/politics / Kathleen LeBesco
Oscar Zeta Acosta's 'autobiography of a brown buffalo': A fat man's recipe for chicano revolution / Marcia Chamberlain
Resisting Venus: negotiating corpulence in exercise videos / Antonia Losano and Brenda a. Risch
Fighting abjection: representing fat women / Le'a Kent
Roscoe Arbuckle and the scandal of fatness / Neda Ulaby
Setting free the bears; refiguring fat men on television / Jerry Mosher
"It's not over until the fat lady sings": comedy, the carnivalesque and body politics / Angela Stukator
Devouring women: corporeality and autonomy in fiction by women since the 1960s / Sarah Shieff.
Sex and fat chics: deterritorializing the fat female body / Jana Evans Braziel
"She's so fat ... ": facing the fat lady at Coney Island's Sideshows by the seashore / Sharon Mazer
Fatties on Stage: feminist performances / Petra Kuppers
Divinity: a dossier, a performance piece, a little-understood emotion / Michael Moon and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.