Pub Date : 2023-05-03DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2023.2208008
Nicholas Villarreal
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Pub Date : 2023-04-23DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2022.2033399
Cindy Baker
ABSTRACT This special issue of Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society explores fatness in relationships. As a topic receiving attention in the fields of art, anthropology, critical race theory, queer studies, disability theory, and related fields, kinship is fertile ground for contemporary study, and fat kinship deserves an increased focus through an academic lens. As the introduction to an issue featuring manuscripts across a broad definition of fat kinship from intimate partner relationships, friendships, professional/client relationships and more, both fat/fat and fat/nonfat, I suggest that contemporary views on kinship that prioritize self-selected and non-traditional bonds can be restorative of not only relationships but of self. Identifying authors and approaches to kinship whose methods can be adapted to a fat perspective, this introduction aims to set the stage for an expanded examination of fat relationships.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-10DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2023.2201013
{"title":"Fat on Film: Gender, Race and Body Size in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/21604851.2023.2201013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2023.2201013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37967,"journal":{"name":"Fat Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society","volume":"117 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79742310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-31DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2023.2197277
Layla Cameron
{"title":"Fat Studies in Canada: (Re)Mapping the Field","authors":"Layla Cameron","doi":"10.1080/21604851.2023.2197277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2023.2197277","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37967,"journal":{"name":"Fat Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73040620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-30DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2023.2189069
Jessica Rae Bergamino
{"title":"Body of Work: Three Poetry Collections","authors":"Jessica Rae Bergamino","doi":"10.1080/21604851.2023.2189069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2023.2189069","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37967,"journal":{"name":"Fat Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86997241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-21DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2023.2189810
Carly-Ann Haney
{"title":"Every Body Shines: Sixteen Stories About Living Fabulously Fat","authors":"Carly-Ann Haney","doi":"10.1080/21604851.2023.2189810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2023.2189810","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37967,"journal":{"name":"Fat Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society","volume":"82 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82494483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-06DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2023.2185373
R. Chabot
{"title":"Shameful Bodies: Religion and the Culture of Physical Improvement","authors":"R. Chabot","doi":"10.1080/21604851.2023.2185373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2023.2185373","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37967,"journal":{"name":"Fat Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society","volume":"121 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73565767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-09DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2023.2176620
Alice Weinreb
{"title":"Fat Studies: Ein Glossar","authors":"Alice Weinreb","doi":"10.1080/21604851.2023.2176620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2023.2176620","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37967,"journal":{"name":"Fat Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society","volume":"134 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80465553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-31DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2023.2170551
Barbara Plotz
ABSTRACT In recent decades, American superhero films, and with them often very traditional constructs of masculinity, have become omnipresent in cinemas worldwide. This article examines a specific type of male representation, male fatness, in two examples of the genre, Spiderman: Into the Spider-verse (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019). The author argues that in both films the fat male character is depicted as demasculinized, thereby standing in a tradition of male fatness stereotyped as outside of normative masculinity. In the superhero genre the body plays a particularly relevant role in signifying a hegemonic masculinity, which is highlighted by the way the two films position the characters’ fatness, or also behaviors associated with fatness, in contrast to the expectations of superhero masculinity.
{"title":"“Why is your body a different shape?” fatness and masculinity in the superhero film","authors":"Barbara Plotz","doi":"10.1080/21604851.2023.2170551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2023.2170551","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In recent decades, American superhero films, and with them often very traditional constructs of masculinity, have become omnipresent in cinemas worldwide. This article examines a specific type of male representation, male fatness, in two examples of the genre, Spiderman: Into the Spider-verse (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019). The author argues that in both films the fat male character is depicted as demasculinized, thereby standing in a tradition of male fatness stereotyped as outside of normative masculinity. In the superhero genre the body plays a particularly relevant role in signifying a hegemonic masculinity, which is highlighted by the way the two films position the characters’ fatness, or also behaviors associated with fatness, in contrast to the expectations of superhero masculinity.","PeriodicalId":37967,"journal":{"name":"Fat Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88873983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2022.2152593
Marlon Rachquel Moore
ABSTRACT With a catalog that stretches from the 1960s into the early 2000s, Luther Vandross is highly esteemed internationally and across multiple generations of music fans. For many, he is essential to the soundtrack of their emotional lives. His stylings are such a large part of the Black cultural imaginary in the United States that, since the 1980s, Vandross has been figured in literature, film, Hip Hop lyrics, and television shows to convey romantic sentiments or a seductive mood in heterosexual and queer contexts. But in some cases, he is admonished and fat shamed, and held up as a symbol of the ways in which “good health” eludes the African American community statistically. I want to linger in that ambivalence and highlight the various shades of meaning that have been attached to Vandross’ fat (and sometimes slim) body in narratives produced for mass culture and smaller targeted audiences. To that end, I take up “Big Luther” discourse as an analytical framework to examine artistic and communal articulations that weaponize “care” and “concern” for Vandross, including the 1996 film The Nutty Professor, a 2006 episode of the animated sitcom The Boondocks, and Divabetic, a diabetes awareness organization that his mother was involved in establishing after Vandross died in 2005.
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