The 'Fat' Female Body

Murray, S.

Investigating the current interest in obesity and fatness, this book explores the problems and ambiguities that form the lived experience of 'fat' women in contemporary Western society. Engaging with dominant ideas about 'fatness', and analysing the assumptions that inform anti-fat attitudes in the West, The 'Fat' Female Body explores the moral panic over the 'obesity epidemic', and the intersection of medicine and morality in pathologising 'fat' bodies. It contributes to the emerging field of fat 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 possibility of (re)reading 'fat' bodies to foster more productive social relations.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2008-09-30

Format: Paperback

ISBN-10: 9781137579706

ISBN-13: 9781137579706

DOI: 10.1057/9780230584419

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 196