Pub Date : 2021-06-10DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.1936791
T. Sniezek
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Pub Date : 2021-06-07DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.1906528
Kristen A. Hardy
ABSTRACT While public concern with body weight is not simply a recent phenomenon, the past several decades have witnessed the intensification of a set of discourses that frame the fat/ness of bodies as a public health crisis, particularly in the United States. In 2004, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the US-American Advertising Council (Ad Council) co-produced a series of print, radio, and television “public service announcements” as part of a self-described “obesity prevention” campaign, which deploys a cultural framework of healthism to present fat as a pathological entity in need of elimination through the efforts of the responsibilized citizen. In this paper, I bring methodological guidance from Sara Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology together with the work of other critical theorists to consider how fat/ness is represented by this campaign as an index of the undisciplined body-self, as a space of abjection, and as a basis for the exclusion of fat bodies as both desired objects and desiring subjects. However, scope may also exist for disruption of the “prescribed” enactments and for new, “queer” orientations toward fat/ness and fat bodies to emerge.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-25DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.1907113
Yessica Garcia Hernandez
ABSTRACT In the last decade, the term gordibuena has received increasing attention in Spanish-speaking social media outlets, and several fat activists have used the term to establish digital archives that promote fat Latina visibility. Gordibuena cultural production includes art, photography, music, books, YouTube videos, and daily Instagram selfies that celebrate the sensuality of fat Latinas. Using what I call “rasquache digital ethnography,” I read gordibuena cultural work as a transnational case study that helps fat studies scholars understand the complexities and ambivalence of fat racialized flesh and activism. I argue that gordibuena cultural work creates what I call “gordibuena erotics,” a mode of “pleasure activism” that centers fat sensuality as an affective register for change.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-14DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.1923618
emet ezell
ABSTRACT An assimilated, white body is disciplined and individualized. This body is forged through practices of eating, which can be found across anthropological research, advertisement campaigns, and my own queer, Southern, Jewish, narrative. This paper will critically examine the ‘Levy’s Jewish Rye Bread’ campaign and its emphasis on dissociation as a case study, exploring the ways in which invisibilizing the Jewish Body contributes to its assimilation. Ultimately, the Levy’s ad campaign highlights the question: What does fatphobia have to do with Ashkenazi Jewish assimilation into whiteness? What might embodied alternatives to assimilation look like? My analysis theorizes Jewish ritual as a practice of refusing fatphobia, rejecting compulsions of white-bodied discipline and celebrating a radiant, discordant belonging.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.1872932
Caché Owens-Velásquez
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.1879537
I. Solanke
ABSTRACT ‘Fattism” has been described as the last acceptable prejudice. Discrimination on the grounds of weight is experienced regularly by women and men in relation to employment as well as access to goods and services. As I show in this article, it can also be seen as a form of intersectional discrimination. Yet a legal remedy for weight discrimination exists in just a few countries. In this essay, I consider why legal protection is so limited: I highlight the influence of the logic of immutability and suggest that an alternative logic – an anti-stigma principle – should be used to guide the evolution of anti-weight discrimination law.
{"title":"The anti-stigma principle and legal protection from fattism","authors":"I. Solanke","doi":"10.1080/21604851.2021.1879537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2021.1879537","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT ‘Fattism” has been described as the last acceptable prejudice. Discrimination on the grounds of weight is experienced regularly by women and men in relation to employment as well as access to goods and services. As I show in this article, it can also be seen as a form of intersectional discrimination. Yet a legal remedy for weight discrimination exists in just a few countries. In this essay, I consider why legal protection is so limited: I highlight the influence of the logic of immutability and suggest that an alternative logic – an anti-stigma principle – should be used to guide the evolution of anti-weight discrimination law.","PeriodicalId":37967,"journal":{"name":"Fat Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society","volume":"40 1","pages":"125 - 143"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87015636","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 : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2020.1834716
D. Luna
{"title":"#VERYFAT #VERYBRAVE: the fat girl’s guide to being #Brave and not a dejected, Melancholy, down-in-the-dumps weeping fat girl in a bikini","authors":"D. Luna","doi":"10.1080/21604851.2020.1834716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2020.1834716","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37967,"journal":{"name":"Fat Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society","volume":"25 1","pages":"210 - 212"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81920303","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 : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.1913831
A. Gondek
ABSTRACT This analytical and exo-autoethnography begins with a depiction of how my Jewish family wished to control my fat body to fit into whiteness. I close with a narrative about an interracial and transnational relationship in which I experienced embodied recognition across racial difference. The purpose is to illustrate the broader intersections between Jewish women’s fatness, associations with blackness, internalized antisemitism, assimilation into whiteness, and the links between the African and Jewish diasporas. Jewish mothers frequently critique their daughters’ bodies to try to assimilate into white femininity. Internalized gendered antisemitism creates disgust for one’s own body that is passed down to daughters. My mom wanted me to have a private pride in being Jewish that she could not access because of her gender, but did not want my Jewishness to physically mark me. Historically Jewish women have been associated with fatness, blackness, vulgarity, and lack of femininity. Collective recognition and acceptance of fat bodies across racial difference is possible through the connections between the Jewish and African diasporas and the challenge to white-centric beauty norms within Black communities.
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