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The hidden lives of big beautiful women

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The hidden lives of big beautiful womenby Crystal Kotow ; edited by May Friedman.
Author:	Kotow, Crystal.
other author:	Friedman, May.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2024.
Description:	xvii, 210 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Overweight womenSocial life and customs.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54453-8
ISBN:	9783031544538$q(electronic bk.)

The hidden lives of big beautiful women
Kotow, Crystal.

The hidden lives of big beautiful women[electronic resource] /by Crystal Kotow ; edited by May Friedman. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2024. - xvii, 210 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave studies in mediating kinship, representation, and difference,2752-7360. - Palgrave studies in mediating kinship, representation, and difference..

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.

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 fat life. The incomparable Crystal Kotow was a brilliant writer, activist, and educator whose research explored fat women's relationships with their bodies. She got her PhD from York University and was a self-identified fat feminist killjoy who practiced radical vulnerability in her activism, storytelling, and community building. May Friedman is a faculty member at Toronto Metropolitan University. Much of May's work explores issues of fat activism and weight stigma in many different settings. Using a range of arts-based methods including digital storytelling as well as analyses of treasured garments, May has explored meaning making and representation in relation to embodiment and experience.

ISBN: 9783031544538$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-54453-8doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

978715
Overweight women
--Social life and customs.

LC Class. No.: HQ1233

Dewey Class. No.: 305.482

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