Pub Date : 2022-10-05DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2022.2129180
P. Browning
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Pub Date : 2022-09-20DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2022.2121490
Carly-Ann Haney, M. Forcier
ABSTRACT Fat bodies in movement are often marked as a “travesty” and met with mockery. Particularly, fat people are commonly constructed as out of place in movement and exercise. Movement such as dancing may be assembled as a form of artistry that fat bodies cannot or should not embody. In particular dancing in a fat temporality that celebrates the ways fat bodies move with flesh, rolls, and marks is seldom celebrated or seen in many spaces. In the frame of resistance, dancing fat embodiment can be a strong form of fat activism that breaks barriers within spaces such as dance. In this article, I highlight the implications of fat bodies in dance within fat studies and activism. I introduce and contextualize my articulations with my experience as a fat artist, scholar, and doctoral student dancing and performing in a six-day somatic dance course. The time spent in class and performing my solo illuminated and created fat time where my body existed in a space often denied for fat people. Specifically, I created fat time where my fatness moved through its tempo of being, resisted containment, and stretched boundaries of space. This act of resistance to the thin normative within dance space was a powerful form of fat activism. Using visuals, sounds, and my own narrative, it is my hope that this article will highlight implications for fat studies scholars and activists, specifically how performance and movement-based arts such as dance can disrupt dominant and pathological assumptions about fat bodies in movement.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-19DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2022.2125693
J. Raisborough, L. Taylor, K. Harrison, Shelly Dulson
ABSTRACT Media representations of fat and weight play a central role in the circulation of weight stigma. However, the production practices involved have received little attention. This paper focuses on the editing techniques deployed in a UK reality television documentary series, On Benefits. Our analysis of cutaway shots suggests a quantitative and qualitative difference between an episode featuring “obese” people claiming welfare, compared to the rest in our sample. We examine the cutaways to show how weight stigma intersects with welfare stigma on the grounds of self-control. We conclude that images of bodies, food, and medical aides mobilize weight stigma to overdetermine welfare claimants as underserving while casting suspicion about the purpose of state welfare in the UK.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-16DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2022.2122326
Judith Schreier
To Be Honest by Maggie Ann Martin provides a thought-provoking take on the thinmother-fat-daughter relationship dynamics that are a theme in young adult novels such as Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy (2015), My Summer of Jordi Perez by Amy Spalding (2018), and Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonado (2021). However, the unusual relationship between mother and daughter is missing depth, reinforces weight-related stereotypes, and ultimately feeds into the new-body-new-me trope. The young adult novel follows the fat teenager Savannah Alverson, a senior at a high school in suburban Indiana. Ashley Alverson, her “re lanky” sister, has just moved away to college, leaving her alone at home with her mother, Kim Alverson, with whom she has a complicated relationship. Their parents divorced recently, and the whole family has to adjust to new living situations. Most central to the plot development, Kim Alverson lost an extreme amount of weight by joining a made-up reality TV show Shake the Weight after “struggling” with her weight throughout her life. Because of her recent lifestyle changes, Kim Alverson tries to impose her habits onto her daughter by regulating what she eats, asking her to eat something “healthy” before social events, and throwing away “bad” highcalorie foods. Kim Alverson unequivocally represents and even epitomizes the evils of diet culture. These scenes showcase the harms of diet cultures and the realities of fat discrimination in family homes, especially between fat daughters and thin mothers. Shake the Weight comes back to the family home to interview the mother and daughter about how they are doing after the weight loss. Savannah’s comments on national television get twisted and put a negative light on the two, as one would expect from such productions, which deepens the division between mother and daughter. In stark contrast, Savannah is portrayed as a fat activist despite occasional insecurities about her body, self-worth, and desirability. Savannah has a clear, opposing opinion regarding her mother’s new eating and exercise rituals. In a heated argument about Savannah’s eating choices, Savannah articulates her stance on her body:
玛吉·安·马丁(Maggie Ann Martin)的《诚实》(To Be Honest)对瘦妈妈和胖女儿之间的关系动态进行了发人深省的探讨，这是年轻成人小说的主题，比如朱莉·墨菲(2015)的《Dumplin》，艾米·斯伯丁(Amy Spalding)的《Jordi Perez的夏天》(2018)，以及克里斯托·马尔多纳多(2021)的《Fat Chance, Charlie Vega》。然而，母女之间不寻常的关系缺乏深度，强化了与体重有关的刻板印象，最终助长了新身体新我的比喻。这部青少年小说讲述了肥胖少年萨凡纳·阿尔弗森的故事，她是印第安纳州郊区一所高中的高三学生。她“瘦长”的妹妹阿什利·阿尔弗森(Ashley Alverson)刚刚搬去上大学，留下她独自在家和母亲金·阿尔弗森(Kim Alverson)呆在一起，两人的关系很复杂。他们的父母最近离婚了，全家人都要适应新的生活环境。剧情发展的核心是，金·阿尔弗森(Kim Alverson)在与体重“斗争”了一辈子之后，通过参加一个虚构的真人秀节目《甩掉体重》(Shake the weight)，成功减掉了大量体重。由于最近生活方式的改变，Kim Alverson试图将自己的习惯强加给女儿，通过控制她的饮食，要求她在社交活动之前吃一些“健康”的东西，并扔掉“不好的”高热量食物。金·阿尔弗森毫不含糊地代表了饮食文化的邪恶，甚至是它的缩影。这些场景展示了饮食文化的危害，以及家庭中肥胖歧视的现实，尤其是肥胖女儿和苗条母亲之间的歧视。《摇一摇体重》栏目再次来到这对母女的家中，采访她们减肥后的情况。萨凡纳在国家电视台上的评论被扭曲了，给两人带来了负面影响，正如人们所期望的那样，这加深了母女之间的分歧。与之形成鲜明对比的是，萨凡纳被描绘成一个肥胖的激进分子，尽管她偶尔会对自己的身体、自我价值和吸引力感到不安。萨凡纳对她母亲新的饮食和锻炼习惯有着明确的反对意见。在一场关于萨凡纳饮食选择的激烈争论中，萨凡纳阐明了她对自己身体的立场:
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.1938419
C. Evans
ABSTRACT This foreword introduces and situates the articles in the “Fashioning Fat” special issue. The intersection of fat studies and fashion studies is a fruitful and productive one; important scholarship that explores how fat people and fat communities approach fashion continues to inform understandings of fat identity construction and performance. Yet there remains an expansive, and emerging, field of fat fashion studies that offers scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds opportunities to deepen and expand those understandings. The six articles in this special issue explore the messy, complicated and constrained relationships between inclusion, liberation, fatness and fashion; they continue existing scholarly conversations and they introduce new ones.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-23DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2022.2093476
R. Chabot
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Pub Date : 2022-05-11DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2022.2075141
M. McMullan
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Pub Date : 2022-04-18DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.1927500
A. Gondek
ABSTRACT This foreword on Jews, race and fatness establishes an historical context in which to understand the articles included in the special section. Typically, discussion of Jewishness, race and fatness focus on the male Jewish body. However, racial definitions of Jewishness depend upon imagery of the fat Jewish woman who is supposedly vulgar, unfeminine, lustful and associated with blackness. A predominant theme within writing about Jewish women, race and fatness is that Jewish women (mothers) have attempted to control “Jewish wildness” to achieve assimilation into whiteness and distance from blackness, through strict adherence to white-centric beauty norms and diet culture. Some Jewish mothers’ racialized disgust for their own bodies and the bodies of their children (daughters) continues to impact Jewish embodied self-perceptions into the present, challenging the assumption that Jewish assimilation into whiteness is complete. The fat Jewish woman’s body is central to the struggle both toward and against assimilation. Jewish women, in their struggle against this forced assimilation, have been central to fat liberation. The contributors to this special section use autoethnography to contest this internalized gendered antisemitism and reclaim the embodied power of fatness, Jewishness and blackness. They repurpose Jewish philosophies in new ways, make and eat bread (challah), oppose diet culture through Fat Torah, embrace “Jewish wildness” and seek embodied recognition across racial difference. Jewish traditions already include the philosophies necessary to move beyond fat acceptance to advocate for fat liberation.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-14DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2022.2047337
Shana McDavis-Conway
ABSTRACT The representation of fat characters in romantic fiction increased after mainstream publishers adopted the marketing strategies of independently published romance novels. These strategies include normalizing pairings of fat heroines and thin heroes, embedding a fat protagonist within a larger series of thin characters, a shift from self- reproaching to self-empowered heroines, and, later, images of explicitly fat bodies on book covers. The visibility of fat bodies on covers coincided with the rise in popularity of illustrated romance book covers, and has allowed publishers to depict larger bodies as non-threatening cartoons. Unlike mainstream romance, legacy publishers of queer romantic fiction have resisted the inclusion of fat characters, particularly fat characters of color. While size diversity in romance has the potential to subvert classic narrative tropes for fat characters, the most commonly used narratives continue to reinforce gendered expectations. The resilience of these binaried expectations can be seen in the rarity of fat pairings in queer romances marketed toward women readers, as well as in the oeuvre of popular authors of romances featuring lesbian and queer women. The latter rarely include fat protagonists in book marketing, and exhibit a preoccupation with controlling body size in their storytelling.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-12DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2022.2063507
R. Shaw, E. Fehoko
ABSTRACT The availability and uptake of assisted reproductive technologies is increasing across the globe yet delays and disparities continue to exist for many Indigenous and minority ethnic groups in terms of outcomes and access to fertility treatment and reproductive services. In this article, we examine the fertility stories of nine Māori (Indigenous people of Aotearoa) and Pacific cisgender women living in Aotearoa who were interviewed as part of a large qualitative study conducted with participants seeking access to assisted reproduction for the purposes of family building. The focus of the article is on the experiences of Māori and Pacific women for whom clinical criteria, which include a Body Mass Index cutoff of 32 kg/m2, present a key barrier blocking access to publicly funded fertility services. We draw on the conceptual tool of epistemic injustice, described by the philosopher Miranda Fricker, as a lens through which to examine the challenges Māori and Pacific women face accessing fertility treatment. The study findings indicate that most participants, at some point throughout the course of their reproductive journeys, encountered epistemic injustice when seeking fertility treatment. To redress this bias, we believe revision of Body Mass Index criteria guidelines, which were implemented as part of a nationwide Clinical Priority Criteria Assessment strategy more than 20 years old, are warranted.
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