| Description |
1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. Because I'm Fat, I Don't Deserve Satisfaction? A Young Fat Woman's Experience of Sex -- 2. "Neither Sari nor Sorry": An Open Letter to the Indian Yummy Mummy -- 3. Beautiful/Ugly -- 4. "I'm Not Fat. I'm Pregnant": A Critical Discussion of Current Debates in Body Size, Fatness, Pregnancy, and Motherhood -- 5. Eating While Fat: Mapping the Journey -- 6. (Not) Too Fat to Tango -- 7. "Who's Afraid of the Big Fat Feminist": An Autoethnographic Account of Fatness in Academic Feminist Spaces -- 8. The Rock Goddess in Large -- 9. The Unpopularity of Being Fat and Black in Popular Culture: A Case Study on Gabourey Sidibe -- 10. She Says -- 11. The Elephant in the (Class)room -- 12. "Your Wheelchair Is So Slim": A Meditation on the Social Enactment of Beauty and Disability -- 13. My Body Is My Business -- 14. On Learning Self-Love: How One Curvy, Disabled Brown Femme Navigates the Body as a Site of Daily Struggle of Living with/in Pain -- 15. the line -- 16. Just What the Doctor Ordered? Interrogating the Narrative of Curing the Fat Body -- 17. Body Lessons -- 18. "Here Comes Fat May": Learning and Relearning to Love My Body -- 19. My New Skin-Tattoos and Skin-Deep Body Love -- 20. A Call for Self-Love -- 21. Self-Acceptance: An Unfinished, Intergenerational Story -- 22. Braced -- 23. Lessons Learned from Fat Women on Television -- 24. Embodied: The Female Body as a Repository of Experience -- 25. Like It or Not: A Dose of Fat Activism for the Medical Community -- 26. "Men Are Not Dogs. They Don't Throw Themselves on the Bones": Fat as Desirable -- 27. Two Poems -- 28. Being Gentle with Myself: A Lifelong Work in Progress -- 29. Interpretation -- 30. We Are the Seeds: Reflections and Conversations on Beauty, Body Image, and Identity with Urban Indigenous Women in Toronto -- 31. Bowel Blues, Bowel Blows |
| Summary |
Body stories capture a nuanced, interconnected, interactive and complex telling of our understanding, perception and experience of and through our bodies. Plenty has been published on body image but image suggests a static fixed body unmitigated through our social interactions and varying times and spaces. This book is not a ""how-to"" guide for fat confidence. It's not a compendium of fat suffering. It's simply a collection of narratives about what it's like |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 20, 2021) |
| Subject |
Body image in women.
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Body image.
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Overweight women.
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Overweight persons.
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Overweight women -- Psychology
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Overweight persons -- Psychology
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Discrimination against overweight women.
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Discrimination against overweight persons.
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Obesity -- Psychological aspects.
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Body Image
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Overweight
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Body image
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Body image in women
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Discrimination against overweight persons
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Discrimination against overweight women
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Obesity -- Psychological aspects
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Overweight persons
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Overweight persons -- Psychology
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Overweight women
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Overweight women -- Psychology
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Andrew, Jill, 1978- editor.
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Friedman, May, 1975- editor.
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| ISBN |
1772583111 |
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9781772583113 |
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