Femininity and fatness after midlife: Rachel Lynde and the invisibility of fat aging in Canadian literature

IF 0.8 Q3 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY
E. Bruusgaard
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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.
中年后的女性气质和肥胖:蕾切尔·林德和加拿大文学中脂肪老化的隐蔽性
尽管理论家认为,种族、性别和性取向的经历在整个生命过程中都是波动和变化的,但同样的想法还没有被应用到脂肪研究中,在这些研究中,衰老的肥胖人群往往被大众文化和学术文化双重边缘化。本文通过对加拿大文学作品《绿山墙的安妮》(1908)中的雷切尔·林德(Rachel Lynde)对肥胖老化的描述进行研究,探讨了文化对衰老过程中隐形和肥胖过程中超可见性的描述,以及中年时期的去性化和肥胖过程中的性欲亢进之间的辩证紧张关系。这篇文章提出,虽然肥胖人群通常会有一些重叠或共同的经历,但肥胖的心理、身体和文化经历会随着生命的进程而改变。在边缘地带可能会有一个空间,让人们重新考虑和回收肥胖、衰老的女性身体。
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