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9780520225855

Bodies Out of Bounds

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520225855

  • ISBN10:

    0520225856

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-07-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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Summary

Bodies Out of Bounds interrogates the discursive constructions of fatness, while analyzing the politics and power of corpulence and addressing the erasure of fat people in media representations of the body.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Editors' Introduction 1(18)
Kathleen LeBesco
Jana Evans Braziel
PART I. REVALUING CORPULENCE, REDEFINING FAT SUBJECTIVITIES
Fat Beauty
19(20)
Richard Klein
A ``Horror of Corpulence'': Interrogating Bantingism and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Fat-Phobia
39(21)
Joyce L. Huff
Letting Ourselves Go: Making Room for the Fat Body in Feminist Scholarship
60(14)
Cecilia Hartley
Queering Fat Bodies/Politics
74(17)
Kathleen LeBesco
PART II. REPRESENTATIONAL MATRICES OF POWER: NATIONALITY, GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND FATNESS
Oscar Zeta Acosta's Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo: A Fat Man's Recipe for Chicano Revolution
91(20)
Marcia Chamberlain
Resisting Venus: Negotiating Corpulence in Exercise Videos
111(19)
Antonia Losano
Brenda A. Risch
Fighting Abjection: Representing Fat Women
130(23)
Le'a Kent
PART III. FAT PERVERSITIES RECONSTRUCTING CORPULENT SEXUALITIES
Roscoe Arbuckle and the Scandal of Fatness
153(13)
Neda Ulaby
Setting Free the Bears: Refiguring Fat Men on Television
166(31)
Jerry Mosher
PART IV. DECONSTRUCTING THE CARNIVALESQUE, GROTESQUE, AND OTHER CONFIGURATIONS OF CORPULENCE
``It's not over until the fat lady sings'': Comedy, the Carnivalesque, and Body Politics
197(17)
Angela Stukator
Devouring Women: Corporeality and Autonomy in Fiction by Women Since the 1960s
214(17)
Sarah Shieff
Sex and Fat Chics: Deterritorializing the Fat Female Body
231(26)
Jana Evans Braziel
PART V. BODIES IN MOTION: CORPULENCE AND PERFORMATIVITY
``She's so fat . . .'': Facing the Fat Lady at Coney Island's Sideshows by the Seashore
257(20)
Sharon Mazer
Fatties on Stage: Feminist Performances
277(15)
Petra Kuppers
Divinity: A Dossier, a Performance Piece, a Little-Understood Emotion
292(37)
Michael Moon
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Contributors 329(4)
Index 333

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