Pub Date : 2022-01-03DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.2017117
M. Edwards
ABSTRACT I make the claim that the erotic has significant uses for fat activist art. I examine the work of Toronto-based, queer, South Asian, fat artist Anshuman Iddamsetty (@boarlord) on Instagram, Patreon, and Only Fans. I draw on Audre Lorde’s writing on the erotic while at the same time challenging her sidelining of the pornographic, using Iddamsetty’s nude self-portraiture as a counterexample of the possibility for an erotic pornographic. My analysis involves a fundamental linking of fat sexuality with fat art and activism both in the current moment and throughout history, with a special focus on digital spaces. Jenny Ellison’s research provides a background for exploring the role of sexuality in gendered fat activism and art, as well as the queer fat history of politicizing desire. I examine how the erotic can be used to flip fat stereotypes and push for liberation in order to understand the specific erotics on display in Iddamsetty’s oeuvre. My analysis configures the fat body as a site of resistance and the erotic as a source of embodied artistic, activist power. I point to the potential of the internet (despite censorship) for creating intimate artistic activist networks, using Lorde’s concept of “the erotic connection.” Ultimately, the question I ask throughout the piece is what can be gained from fully embracing erotic art in fat activism?
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.1911486
Nina Mackert, F. Schorb
One of the most pervasive elements of fat phobia is the equation of body fat and poor health. Health effectively serves as the weapon of last resort when every other argument against fatness has failed to convince. Because of the “reductive collapse between weight and health” (LeBesco 2010, 154) and because health seems to be such an unequivocally positive and indisputable goal, this justifies the notion that fatness cannot in good conscience be embraced as part of human diversity. Public health, typically defined as “the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical and mental health” (Winslow 1920, 23), is shaped by an understanding of fatness as one of the main causes for chronic diseases and one of the major health problems the world is currently facing. The field defines itself in large part as prevention in contrast to medicine with its focus on intervention. This attitude is most eloquently expressed in the parable of the lethal river. In this tale, medicine is constantly rescuing drowning people out of the wild water without time to analyze the underlying causes. Public health on the other hand sees its role in preventing loss of lives by installing safety precautions upstream and, better yet, by teaching people how to swim (McKinlay 1979). This model worked well historically and had its most obvious success in the nineteenth century, when hygienic arrangements saved many people from infectious diseases well before the exact causes of these diseases were known, and long before a medical solution was readily available. The model became harder to repeat when, in the second half of the twentieth century, the prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) became the central focus of health interventions in western societies. With the popularization of the “risk factor model” – that is, the identification of risks for illnesses such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases – it turned out to be increasingly difficult to pin down decisive risk factors with the required accuracy (Barnes and Parkhurst 2014). Since then, the solutions public health proposes against the risk factors of chronic diseases tend to address the
肥胖恐惧症最普遍的因素之一是身体脂肪和健康状况不佳的等式。当其他所有反对肥胖的论点都无法令人信服时，健康有效地充当了最后的武器。因为“体重和健康之间的减少崩溃”(LeBesco 2010, 154)，因为健康似乎是这样一个明确的积极和无可争辩的目标，这证明了肥胖不能被良心地接受为人类多样性的一部分的概念是正当的。公共卫生通常被定义为“预防疾病、延长生命和促进身心健康的科学和艺术”(Winslow 1920, 23)，它的形成是由于人们认识到肥胖是慢性疾病的主要原因之一，也是世界目前面临的主要健康问题之一。该领域在很大程度上将自己定义为预防，而不是专注于干预的医学。这种态度在致命河流的寓言中得到了最有力的表达。在这个故事中，医学不断地把落水者从汪洋大海中救出来，却没有时间去分析根本原因。另一方面，公共卫生认为它的作用是通过在上游安装安全预防措施，更好的是，通过教人们如何游泳来防止生命损失(McKinlay 1979)。这种模式在历史上运作良好，在19世纪取得了最明显的成功，当时卫生安排使许多人免于传染病，而这些疾病的确切原因远在人们知道之前，而且远在医疗解决方案现成之前。20世纪下半叶，当预防非传染性疾病(NCDs)成为西方社会卫生干预的中心焦点时，这种模式变得更加难以重复。随着“风险因素模型”(即识别糖尿病和心血管疾病等疾病的风险)的普及，事实证明，以所需的准确性确定决定性风险因素越来越困难(Barnes and Parkhurst 2014)。从那时起，公共卫生针对慢性病危险因素提出的解决办法往往涉及到
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Pub Date : 2021-12-14DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.2002543
Kimberly Dark
I was thrilled to see the title Fat in Four Cultures: A Global Ethnography of Weight – and I also wondered how an ethnography on such a rich and complex topic, in four different countries, could possibly yield such a slim volume. The researchers, while having done ethnographic work in their specialty regions, were actually conducting interviews on the topic of fat. As a qualitative researcher myself, I’m not immediately dismayed by focused interviews and small sample sizes, but I am on the lookout for lack of depth, leading questions, and analysis that doesn’t adequately explore the position of the researcher vis-àvis the subject matter. I’m sorry to say, I found all of those things in this book. Indeed, the Fat Studies journal editor had seen the book and decided it wasn’t using fat studies as a lens, and therefore passed on reviewing it. So, why did I go to the trouble? I think Fat in Four Cultures offered the opportunity to consider and discuss what’s happening in research about bodies, food and fat culture as fat studies evolves and influences (or fails to influence) research in the social sciences. The four authors are anthropologists and seem to have solid backgrounds and training in the methods they undertook. They even reference fat studies texts and approaches and then fail to use them:
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Pub Date : 2021-12-07DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.2006958
R. Streeter
ABSTRACT Contemporary representations of beauty in the United States emphasize a feminine ideal that is white, thin, able-bodied, cisgender, heterosexual, and young. However, with the advent of hashtag feminism, body positive influencers have sought to challenge the idealization of thin bodies and encourage people to rethink the boundaries of ideal femininity by positing an alternative esthetic that celebrates bodies in varying shapes and sizes. Drawing on interviews with 12 body positive influencers and an examination of 159 Instagram posts, the author examines how body positive influencers modify stereotypical understandings of femininity. The results suggest that challenging femininity and beauty in the body positive movement requires negotiation. While body positive influencers seek to expand the boundaries of femininity to include fat bodies, they also reinforce some traditional norms of femininity. However, interviews with influencers suggest that Instagram images read as reinforcing patriarchal femininity are misinterpreted queer femme imagery. By conducting both a content analysis of Instagram posts and interviews, this research captures a more nuanced understanding of the body positive movement—one that not only enforces patriarchal femininity, but also redefines femininity through fat femme representation.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-07DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.2013051
Gemma Gibson
ABSTRACT Body positivity is experiencing a cultural moment of popularity. Recognizable by its self-love and “inclusive” messaging, body positivity’s primary aim is to help people feel “good” in their bodies. However, the movement also receives legitimate critiques which argue only some bodies are celebrated. Fem(me)inine fat people are centralized in body positivity and with the popularization of branding influenced microblogging comes a very specific, cultivated femme style associated with popular fatshion. This article explores where fem(me)inine fatshion styles come from and whether femme is being recognized as a political identity in the body positivity and fat activist movements. Using case studies and autobiographies of people engaging with body positive ideologies, I examine the claims that body positivity depoliticizes the fat activist movement and explore whether this happened within a specific femme and fatshion context. I conclude that while embodying fem(me)ininity can feel like an act of resistance, it is unlikely all the goals of fat activism will be met through a “legitimized” fat fem(me)ininity alone.
身体积极正经历着一个流行的文化时刻。以自爱和“包容”的信息来识别，身体积极的主要目的是帮助人们对自己的身体感觉“良好”。然而，这项运动也受到了合理的批评，认为只有一些人被庆祝。Fem(me) ine - fat people以身体正能量为中心，随着品牌影响的微博的普及，一种非常具体的、有教养的女性风格与流行时尚相关联。本文探讨了女性化(me)的时尚风格从何而来，以及女性化(femme)是否在积极的身体运动和减肥运动中被视为一种政治身份。通过案例研究和参与身体积极意识形态的人的自传，我研究了身体积极使肥胖活动家运动非政治化的说法，并探讨了这种情况是否发生在特定的女性和时尚背景下。我的结论是，虽然体现“我的无限”可能感觉像是一种反抗行为，但肥胖激进主义的所有目标不太可能仅仅通过“合法”的“我的无限”来实现。
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Pub Date : 2021-12-02DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.2010334
Marquisele Mercedes
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.2009682
Ariella R. Rotramel, Megan Tracy, Emma Coles
ABSTRACT This article examines the intersections of femininity, labor, fatness and maternity. Specifically, this article explores Atlantic City’s casinos’ treatment of women cocktail servers, arguing that personal Appearance Standards (PAS) are a site of conflict that demonstrates the importance of expanding how femininity is embodied and valued in the workplace. Through a close reading of promotional materials, media coverage, and public lawsuit materials, our study reveals how workers’ bodies and the services they provide are (de)valued through the application of patriarchal feminine standards. Plaintiffs’ accounts demonstrate the push they experience to conform to a weight-based imagining of feminine attractiveness. The expectation of simultaneously providing drink service and entertainment creates an employer demand for hegemonically feminine workers. The result is a rejection of servers whose feminine growth exceeds the normative conceptualization of casinos’ seductive femininity. Gaps in legal protections as well as limited applications of existing discrimination laws continue to enable employers’ overreach into the management of women workers’ bodies.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-29DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.2001918
E. Bruusgaard
ABSTRACT Though theorists argue that experiences of race, gender and sexuality fluctuate and change across a full life course, the same thinking has not yet been applied to fat studies, where aging fat folks are often doubly marginalized by popular and academic culture. In a study of one Canadian literary depiction of fat aging, Rachel Lynde from L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables (1908), this article will examine the dialectical tensions between cultural delineations of invisibility in aging and hyper-visibility in fatness, and desexualization in midlife and hypersexuality in fatness. This article proposes that while there may be some overlap or experiences in common for fat folks generally, the mental, physical, and cultural experience of fatness alters over the life course. There may be a space in the margins from which to reconsider and repatriate fat, aging feminine bodies.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-24DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.2006959
Lindsey Breitwieser, Jocelyne Bartram Scott
ABSTRACT What power relations exist at the intersections of femininity and fatness in rock climbing? In this article, we theorize our experiences with indoor recreational rock climbing focusing on climbing culture’s tendency toward femmephobia, sizeism, and body normativity. Using fat studies and critical femininities, we unite theory and personal experience to examine how the sport uses “fit-ness” to bring climbers into alignment with an idealized form. We argue that consistent surveillance of the body and athletic performance lends itself to femmephobic sizeism that sees non-normative bodies as “misfits” in the climbing gym. We also advocate for re-valuing the feminized intimacies of rock climbing that are already built into the mechanics of the sport but are more evident for those subjected to a fatphobic gaze. Diversifying rock climbing necessitates expanding ways to “fit,” and so we conclude with structural and cultural next steps to improve marginalized experiences and the sport itself. Ultimately, our consideration of fatness and femininity in indoor rock climbing draws attention to broader cultural tensions surrounding embodiment, health, size, gender, and belonging.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-18DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.2004770
Ashik Istiak
Well Rounded is a straightforward expression of body positivity and a bold rebellion against fat-shaming, racism, queer-shaming, and socially constructed patriarchy or toxic masculinity. In the very beginning, the theme song of the film is “Dear Goddess/Give me patience/I have tried to explain/I have got zero tolerance/When they fuck with my sacred space . . . .” And during the song Ivory, a fat Black woman, is seen walking around a neighborhood full of graffiti walls. Then, through a vivid animation, social media comments such as “G.R.O.S.S,” “Disgusting beast,” “Gay,” “This is unhealthy,” “She should cover her arms,” and “Have fun dying” clarify the aim of the film: it is about fat women who regularly encounter unbearable external pressure focused on their bodies. Their bodies are a public discussion, things to be shamed, problems that need advice, things to be pitied, sources of fun, objects to be stared at, and unfit entities in public spaces. Well Rounded addresses all these public issues: negative public reactions while witnessing a fat body, ill-treatment in public spaces, and fat-shaming in media. Presenting the notion of body positivity as an antithesis to the thin-obsession practiced in a toxic patriarchal society, the film wants to express that being fat is not a crime, it is perfectly all right to be fat and live a healthy happy life. Though the social problems of fat women are the center topics, the movie also addresses the crisis of a queer and racially subjugated woman.
Well round是对身体积极向上的直接表达，也是对肥胖羞辱、种族主义、同性恋羞辱和社会建构的父权制或有毒男子气概的大胆反抗。一开始，电影的主题曲是“亲爱的女神/给我耐心/我已经试图解释/我已经零容忍/当他们操我的神圣空间. . . .”，在歌曲中，可以看到一个肥胖的黑人妇女象牙，走在一个充满涂鸦墙的社区。然后，通过生动的动画，社交媒体上的评论，如“G.R.O.S.”S，“恶心的野兽”，“同性恋”，“这是不健康的”，“她应该遮住她的手臂”和“享受死亡”阐明了这部电影的目的:它是关于肥胖女性经常遇到难以忍受的外部压力集中在她们的身体上。他们的身体是公众讨论的话题，是值得羞耻的事情，需要建议的问题，值得同情的事情，是乐趣的来源，是值得凝视的对象，是不适合出现在公共场所的实体。Well round解决了所有这些公共问题:目睹肥胖时的负面公众反应，公共场所的虐待，以及媒体对肥胖的羞辱。这部电影将身体积极的概念作为对有毒父权社会中对瘦的迷恋的对立面，想要表达的是，肥胖不是犯罪，肥胖并过着健康快乐的生活是完全正确的。虽然胖女人的社会问题是中心话题，但电影也解决了一个酷儿和种族被征服的女人的危机。
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