| Description |
x, 151 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction : fatness and Blackness : a compelling coincidence of erasure -- 1. Reshaping identity -- 2. The anatomy of sexual unruliness -- 3. Bodily abundance -- 4. Spectacles of size : performing bodies of fat Black women -- Conclusion : consumption and control : the "epidemic" of fatness |
| Summary |
"The Embodiment of Disobedience explores the ways in which the African Diaspora has rejected the West's efforts to impose imperatives of slenderness and mass-market fat anxiety. Andrea Elizabeth Shaw looks at the origins and contradictions of this phenomenon, especially the cultural deviations in beauty criteria and the related social and cultural practices. Unique in its examination of how fatness and blackness interact on literary and cultural planes, this book develops previously unexamined connections among representations of women throughout the African Diaspora."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-142) and index |
| Subject |
African American women.
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African American women in literature.
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Women, Black.
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Women, Black, in literature.
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Overweight women.
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Overweight women in literature.
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African diaspora.
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Body image -- Cross-cultural studies.
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| LC no. |
2006010209 |
| ISBN |
0739114867 (hdbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780739114865 (hdbk. : alk. paper) |
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0739114875 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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9780739114872 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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9780739114865 |
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9780739114872 |
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