Revolting bodies?: the struggle to redefine fat identity
Auteur :
LeBesco, Kathleen
Éditeur :
University of Massachusetts Press
ISBN :
9781558494299
Date de publication :
16 déc. 2003
Dimensions :
22,4 x 15,2 x 1,2 cm
Poids :
279 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
This work examines a number of sites of struggle over the cultural meaning of fatness. It is grounded in scholarship on identity politics, the social construction of beauty, and the subversion of hegemonic medical ideas about the dangers of fatness.