Revolting bodies ? the struggle to redefine fat identity /

LeBesco, Kathleen (1970-....)

Revolting bodies ? the struggle to redefine fat identity / [Texte imprimé] : Kathleen LeBesco - Amherst ; Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, cop. 2004 - 1 vol. (IX-162 p.) ; 23 cm

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Introduction: The discourse of revolt -- Organization and embodiment: politicizing and historicizing fatness -- Antidotes to medical discourse about fatness -- Sexy/beautiful/fat -- Citizen profane: consumerism, class, race, and body -- Revolution on a rack: fatness, fashion, and commodification -- Framing fatness: representations of obesity as disability -- The queerness of fat -- The resignification of fat in cyberspace -- Fat politics and the will to innocence

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Obesity / Social aspects

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