Andrea Elizabeth Shaw

The Embodiment of Disobedience

Fat Black Women's Unruly Political Bodies

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Produktbeschreibung

The Embodiment of Disobedience explores the ways in which the African Diaspora has rejected the West's efforts to impose imperatives of slenderness and mass market fat-anxiety.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 397g
• ISBN-13: 9780739114865
• ISBN-10: 0739114867
• Artikelnr.: 21686771

Autorenporträt

Andrea Elizabeth Shaw is Assistant Director of the Division of Humanities and Assistant Professor of English at Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Fatness and Blackness: A Compelling Coincidence of
Erasure Chapter 2 Reshaping Identity Chapter 3 The Anatomy of Sexual
Unruliness Chapter 4 Bodily Abundance Chapter 5 Spectacles of Size: The
Performing Bodies of Fat Black Women Chapter 6 Consumption and Control: The
"Epidemic" of Fatness