Queering Fat Embodiment

by Cat Pausé, Samantha Murray, Jackie Wykes

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409465447
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	05/28/2014
Series:	Queer Interventions
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Cat Pausé is Lecturer in Human Development and Fat Studies Researcher at Massey University, New Zealand. Jackie Wykes is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Culture and Communications at the University of Melbourne, Australia Samantha Murray is the author of The ’Fat’ Female Body, and co-editor of Somatechnics: Queering the Technologisation of Bodies.

Table of Contents

List of Figures vii

About the Editors ix

Notes on Contributors xi

Acknowledgements xv

1 Introduction: Why Queering Fat Embodiment? Jackie Wykes 1

2 Queering Body Size and Shape: Performatrvity, the Closet, Shame and Orientation Robyn Longhurst 13

3 Becoming Travolta Kimberly Dark 27

4 The Performance of Fat: The Spectre Outside the House of Desire Stefanie A. Jones 31

5 On Fatness and Fluidity: A Meditation Kathleen LeBesco 49

6 Chubby Boys with Strap-Ons: Queering Fat Transmasculine Embodiment James Burford Sam Orchard 61

7 Causing a Commotion: Queering Fat in Cyberspace Cat Pausé 89

8 Flaunting Fat: Sex with the lights On Jenny Lee 89

9 Queering the Linkages and Divergences: The Relationship between Fatness and Disability and the Hope for a livable World Zoë Meleo-Erwin 97

10 Bear Arts Naked: Queer Activism and the Fat Male Body Scott Beattie 115

11 Fashion's 'Forgotten Woman': How Fat Bodies Queer Fashion and Consumption Margitte Kristjansson 131

Index 147

Editorial Reviews

’Queering Fat Embodiment is the first book to focus on the intersection of queer studies and fat studies, and promises to be a classic in its field. What could be more exciting than discussions of fat and queer fashion, desire, performance, cyberspace, and politics, as well as the fluidity of gender identity, bodies, and sexuality? It’s a great read.’ Esther D. Rothblum, San Diego State University, USA ’Queering Fat Embodiment is an important contribution to the emerging literature of Fat Studies because it restates the necessity for radical critique and makes space for anti-assimilationist activism. The book offers an exciting balance of better-known contributors and fresh new voices and I highly recommend it to anybody interested in developing a critical understanding of fat and obesity.’ Dr Charlotte Cooper, charlottecooper.net, obesitytimebomb.blogspot.co.uk, twitter.com/thebeefer

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