Fat Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society最新文献

{"title":"“Spread my thighs and imagine a better, fatter world”: the uses of the erotic in fat activist art","authors":"M. Edwards","doi":"10.1080/21604851.2021.2017117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2021.2017117","url":null,"abstract":"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?","PeriodicalId":37967,"journal":{"name":"Fat Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society","volume":"39 1","pages":"500 - 512"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79836813","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}

{"title":"Introduction to the special issue: public health, healthism, and fatness","authors":"Nina Mackert, F. Schorb","doi":"10.1080/21604851.2021.1911486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2021.1911486","url":null,"abstract":"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","PeriodicalId":37967,"journal":{"name":"Fat Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society","volume":"10 1","pages":"1 - 7"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84625875","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}

{"title":"Fat in four cultures: a global ethnography of weight","authors":"Kimberly Dark","doi":"10.1080/21604851.2021.2002543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2021.2002543","url":null,"abstract":"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:","PeriodicalId":37967,"journal":{"name":"Fat Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society","volume":"37 1","pages":"350 - 352"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81341112","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}

{"title":"“Bargaining with the status quo”: Reinforcing and expanding femininities in the #bodypositive movement","authors":"R. Streeter","doi":"10.1080/21604851.2021.2006958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2021.2006958","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":37967,"journal":{"name":"Fat Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society","volume":"55 1","pages":"120 - 134"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89565881","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}

{"title":"“Just there for the fashion, basically”: politicized fem(me)ininity in the fat-o-sphere","authors":"Gemma Gibson","doi":"10.1080/21604851.2021.2013051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2021.2013051","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":37967,"journal":{"name":"Fat Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society","volume":"122 1","pages":"135 - 148"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73466591","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}

{"title":"Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness","authors":"Marquisele Mercedes","doi":"10.1080/21604851.2021.2010334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2021.2010334","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37967,"journal":{"name":"Fat Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society","volume":"20 1","pages":"353 - 355"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87139699","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}

{"title":"Weighing the value of femininity: casino cocktail servers and personal appearance standards","authors":"Ariella R. Rotramel, Megan Tracy, Emma Coles","doi":"10.1080/21604851.2021.2009682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2021.2009682","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":37967,"journal":{"name":"Fat Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society","volume":"36 1","pages":"162 - 175"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81060916","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}

{"title":"Femininity and fatness after midlife: Rachel Lynde and the invisibility of fat aging in Canadian literature","authors":"E. Bruusgaard","doi":"10.1080/21604851.2021.2001918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2021.2001918","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":37967,"journal":{"name":"Fat Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society","volume":"94 1","pages":"176 - 187"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90437160","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}

{"title":"Femininity, Body Size, and (Mis)Fitting in Rock Climbing Culture","authors":"Lindsey Breitwieser, Jocelyne Bartram Scott","doi":"10.1080/21604851.2021.2006959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2021.2006959","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":37967,"journal":{"name":"Fat Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society","volume":"38 1","pages":"149 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81292364","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}

{"title":"Well Rounded [documentary], directed by Shana Myara, 2021, 1 hour","authors":"Ashik Istiak","doi":"10.1080/21604851.2021.2004770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2021.2004770","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":37967,"journal":{"name":"Fat Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society","volume":"37 1","pages":"356 - 358"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73744481","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}