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The Hidden Lives of Big Beautiful Women

The Hidden Lives of Big Beautiful Women

Friedman, May
Kotow, Crystal

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference

PhilosophyGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3031544528
ISBN13: 9783031544521
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Apr 13 2024
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
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.

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