The Weight of the Fat Body: Anti-Fat Rhetoric

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Title:	The Weight of the Fat Body: Anti-Fat Rhetoric
Author:	Stuart, Heather N
Description:	This thesis concentrates upon the complex and competing ways that public discourse constructs the heavy body. By critically engaging with works central to disability studies, cultural studies, postmodern feminist theory, and political theory, I draw attention to the rhetoric of fatness in relation to the construction of citizenship—more specifically, the ways that citizenship is (dis)qualified for or revoked from people identified as ‘obese.’ Through examinations of popular culture in the form of newspaper articles, I explore conflations of cultural difference and classes of bodies—at the same time ethnic, gendered, dis/abled, socio-economically determined, and ‘sized’ bodies. The work of disability studies scholars Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and Lennard Davis, the cultural theories of Susan Bordo and Kathleen LeBesco, and the work of Michel Foucault all provide critical frameworks for thinking through the fat body towards a necessarily complex notion of (proud) fat embodiment.
Permanent Link:	http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1154721566 http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/18473
Date:	2006

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