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The Embodiment of Disobedience
Fat Black Women's Unruly Political Bodies
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2006
Summary
Despite the West's privileging of slenderness as an aesthetic ideal, the African Diaspora has historically displayed a resistance to the Western European and North American indulgence in 'fat anxiety.' The Embodiment of Disobedience explores the ways in which the African Diaspora has rejected the West's efforts to impose imperatives of slenderness and mass market fat-anxiety. Author Andrea Shaw explores the origins and contradictions of this phenomenon, especially the cultural deviations in beauty criteria and the related social and cultural practices. Unique in its examination of how both fatness and blackness interact on literary cultural planes, this book also offers a diasporic scope that develops previously unexamined connections among female representations throughout the African Diaspora.
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Bibliographic data
Edition
1/2006
Copyright Year
2006
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-1486-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-5457-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
151
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Acknowledgments No access
IntroductionFatness and Blackness: A Compelling Coincidence of Erasure No access Pages 1 - 18
1 Reshaping Identity No access Pages 19 - 46
2 The Anatomy of Sexual Unruliness No access Pages 47 - 76
3 Bodily Abundance No access Pages 77 - 98
4 Spectacles of Size: The Performing Bodies of Fat Black Women No access Pages 99 - 126
ConclusionConsumption and Control: The "Epidemic" of Fatness No access Pages 127 - 132
