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The 'fat' female body

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The 'fat' female bodySamantha Murray.
Author:	Murray, Samantha,
Published:	Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan,2008.
Description:	viii, 196 p.
Subject:	Obesity.
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230584419

The 'fat' female body
Murray, Samantha,1978-

The 'fat' female body[electronic resource] /Samantha Murray. - Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan,2008. - viii, 196 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-188) and index.

Introduction: The 'Fat' Female Body: Pathological, Political and Phenomenological Imaginings -- -- PART 1 -- Positioning 'Fatness' in Our Cultural Imaginary -- The 'Normal' and the 'Pathological': 'Obesity' andthe Dis-eased 'Fat' Body -- 'Fat' Bodies as Virtual Confessors and Medical Morality-- -- PART 2 -- Fed up with Fat-Phobia: Coming Out as 'Fat' -- Fat Pride and the Insistence on the Voluntarist Subject -- Fattening Up Foucault: A 'Fat' Counter-Aesthetic? -- -- PART 3 -- Throwing OffDiscourse? Questions of Ambivalence and the Mind/Body Split -- ('Fat') 'Being-In-The-World': Merleau-Ponty's account of the 'body-subject' -- Embodiment as Ambiguity: 'Fatness' as it is Lived -- -- Afterword: 'Fat' Bodily Being.

Investigating the current interest in obesity and fatness, this bookexplores the problems andambiguities that form the lived experience of 'fat' women in contemporary Western society. Engagingwith dominant ideas about 'fatness', and analysing the assumptions that inform anti-fat attitudes in the West, The 'Fat' Female Body explores the moral panicover the 'obesity epidemic', and the intersection of medicine and morality in pathologising 'fat' bodies. It contributes to the emerging fieldoffat studies by offering not only alternative understandings of subjectivity, the (re)production of public knowledge(s) of 'fatness', and politics of embodiment, but also the possiblility of (re)reading 'fat' bodies to foster more productive social relations.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230584419

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230584419doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

198609
Obesity.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: RC628 / .M87 2008eb

Dewey Class. No.: 362.196/398

National Library of Medicine Call No.: 2008 M-844

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