Fattening fabulousness: the joys and risks of troubling gender through fat fashion

IF 0.8 Q3 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY
Ben Barry, C. Evans, May Friedman
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ABSTRACT Gender and weight are produced through dress before a child comes into the world. But dressing the body in ways that produce and embody one’s own understanding of gender is challenging for fat bodies because they have limited or no choice of available clothing sizes and styles. As a result, finding clothes that produce and embody fat people’s desired gender identities and expressions tends to be a source of struggle. This article tells a different story. Drawing on interviews and participatory photography, we use madison moore’s theory of “fabulousness” to explore how six fat, curvy and thick-identified people of diverse gender and fat embodiments create their gender and fat identities through their favorite fashion object. We also explore how participatory photography allows our participants and research team to co-create new understandings of fat, gender and fashion. Our work centers participants’ pleasure from finding and wearing clothing that produces and embodies their desired gender and fat identities, but participants also share how risk is inescapable when they dress their bodies in their favorite pieces in the social world. We argue that our participants practice “fabulousness” because their embodied dressing leads them to experience both pleasure and risk by stretching dominant understandings of gender and fat. Our findings contribute to fat studies and fashion studies by introducing underrepresented experiences of gender and weight, demonstrating how participatory photography generates more layered understandings of gender, fat and embodied dressing, and revealing the possibilities of fabulousness to connect both fields.
令人难以置信的肥胖:通过肥胖时尚来扰乱性别的乐趣和风险
在孩子来到这个世界之前,性别和体重都是通过穿着来决定的。但是,对于肥胖的人来说,用能够产生和体现自己对性别的理解的方式来穿衣服是一项挑战,因为他们可以选择的衣服尺寸和风格有限,或者根本没有选择。因此,寻找能够产生并体现胖人所期望的性别认同和表达的衣服往往是一种挣扎。这篇文章讲述了一个不同的故事。通过访谈和参与式摄影,我们使用麦迪逊摩尔的“神话”理论来探索六个不同性别和肥胖体现的肥胖,曲线和厚实的人如何通过他们最喜欢的时尚对象来创造他们的性别和肥胖身份。我们还探索了参与式摄影如何让我们的参与者和研究团队共同创造对脂肪、性别和时尚的新理解。我们的工作让参与者从寻找和穿着能够体现他们所期望的性别和肥胖身份的衣服中获得乐趣,但参与者也分享了当他们在社交世界中穿着自己喜欢的衣服时,风险是不可避免的。我们认为,我们的参与者之所以实践“令人难以置信”,是因为他们的具象化着装通过延伸对性别和脂肪的主流理解,让他们体验到快乐和风险。我们的研究结果通过介绍性别和体重的代表性不足的经验,展示参与式摄影如何产生对性别、肥胖和体现性着装的更层次的理解,并揭示了将这两个领域联系起来的惊人可能性,为肥胖研究和时尚研究做出了贡献。
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