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Bodies Out of Bounds
Bodies Out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression | Jana Evans Braziel, Kathleen LeBesco
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"This is an exceptional collection--the subject is of obvious importance, yet terribly undertheorized and unexamined. I know of no other work that offers what this collection provides."--Marcia Millman, author of Such a Pretty Face: Being Fat in America ". . . A valuable contribution to scholarly debates on the place of excessive bodies in contemporary culture. This book promises to enrich all areas of inquiry related to the politics of bodies."--Carole Spitzack, author of Confessing Excess: Women and the Politics of Body Reduction "This anthology includes a wide range of perceptive and original essays, which explore and analyze the underlying ideologies that have made fat "incorrect." Echoing the spirit of the nineteenth-century adage about children who should be neither seen nor heard, some of the authors powerfully remind us that we keep "bodies out of bound" silenced and unseen-unless, of course, we need to peek at the comic or grotesque."--Raquel Salgado Scherr, co-author of Face Value: The Politics of Beauty "Through textual analyses, video/film analyses, television theory, and literary theory, this collection demonstrates the various ways in which dominant representations of fat and corpulence have been both demonized and rendered invisible. . . . This volume will be a crucial corollary to work on the tyranny of slenderness; a collection of different perspectives on the fat body is sorely missing in women's studies, communication, and media studies."--Sarah Banet-Weiser, author of The Most Beautiful Girl in the World: Beauty Pageants and National Identity
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Bodies Out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression | Jana Evans Braziel, Kathleen LeBesco
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Sunday brunch and a book

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Bodies Out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression | Jana Evans Braziel, Kathleen LeBesco
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From a choose your own adventure romance novel to an academic collection of essays about weight. What can I say I like variety.

I‘m also a huge nerd and I like that this reminds me of college. I‘m pretty sure it‘s been used in college courses many times.

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