The Hidden Lives of Big Beautiful Women

von Crystal Kotow

210 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book is a deep dive into the largely unexplored space of BBW “bashes”—multi-day gatherings of fat women and their admirers. Using a range of feminist theories of embodiment and affect, the project is guided by autoethnography and in-depth interviews with twelve participants. Participant experiences are first analyzed with a key focus on experiences that cause grief and disenfranchisement; subsequently, the book looks at experiences that may be radical or revelatory. The book does not seek to either villainize or valorize BBW spaces but instead sheds a bright light on the experience of this cultural subspace and all it may offer to analyses of fat life. 

• Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Soziologie
• ISBN: 9783031544521
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 13.04.2024
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Herausgegeben von: May Friedman