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Tjocka kroppar, snäva världar : En intervjustudie om tjocka förkroppsliganden / Thick Bodies, Narrow Worlds : An Interview Study on Fat EmbodimentsAlberts, Alice January 2023 (has links)
Current medical discourse and endless media debates on obesity and health have rendered the fat body highly visible. However, the lived experiences of fat have to a large extent remained absent in these discourses. This thesis, therefore, expands and reconceptualizes notions of fatness and fat embodiments. Using semi-structured, in-depth interviewing with individuals of marginalized genders living in Sweden who identify as being fat, the thesis explores (1) the individuals’ perception of fat; how it is seen, felt, and known, (2) how their fat, gendered embodiments shape their identity and their ”being-in-the-world”, and (3) the coping strategies and/or opportunities for resistance available to deal with and/or challenge negative and stigmatizing experiences. Merging phenomenology, affect theory, and temporality theories, findings suggest that fat individuals experience struggles and hatred while navigating a thin world that excludes their fat flesh, resulting in feelings of hyperawareness, shame, and being out of place. Through everyday experiences in this intersubjective world, they are also constructed as being out of time, affecting their access to the present. Navigating conflicting demands of visibility/invisibility, embodying the innocent/guilty fatty, and embracing the body/disembodying from it, the author reflects on the implication of these findings for understandings of fat embodiments as multiple, ambiguous, shifting, and at times contradictory. The thesis offers thickened understandings of the significance of fat embodiments for challenging the ways in which power operates on bodies, for (re)conceptualizing normative notions of fatness, and for fat people themselves.
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BMI-doktrinen : En beskrivande idéanalys av kritiska diskurser kring BMIBjörklund, Cayenne January 2023 (has links)
This paper examines critical perspectives on Body Mass Index (BMI) in ongoing societaldiscussions, focusing on poststructuralism, gender, consumer society, and race. Using fatstudies, intersectionality theory, and poststructuralism, the research integrates Foucault'spower theories. Analyzing six scholarly articles, the study categorizes BMI criticisms,emphasizing Foucault's biopower concepts as key to understanding societal regulation. Theparadox of power is evident as the slim body signifies self-discipline in a consumer-drivenculture valuing control. The paper also highlights BMI's critique for disregarding gender andrace, originating from the white male body, and immerses into historical associations. Thefindings of this paper uncovers how the discourse on BMI is connected to commercialinterests, politics, and economics, influencing power dynamics. In conclusion, the studyunderscores the link between BMI discourse, poststructuralism, and self-discipline, whilerevealing its limitations in a diversity context, with gender and race influencing criticism.Power, commercial interests, and societal politics emerge as crucial within this discourse.
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Harry Potter and the Fat Stereotypes / Harry Potter och De Tjocka Karaktärerna : En Analys av Stereotyper inom FantasyserienHanna, Olsson January 2019 (has links)
In the field of research within film studies which consider how aspects such as gender or race affect the portrayal of a character, the aspect of characters' body sizes are not always taken into account. By analysing the fat characters in the popular children's and young adult film series about Harry Potter, I bring attention to the fact that the use of stereotypes is significant in these characterisations, and further contributes to the marginalisation of this particular group of people. I looked specifically at what the characters had in common with each other, and if they adhered to already established stereotypes concerning fat people, and found that the one thing they all share is a lack of academic or intellectual skill to varying degrees, which is in line with the common stereotypes of fat people as dumb. I further analysed the differences between the fat men and fat women in the series, and found that fat men were a far more common occurrence than fat women, and that fat girls did not even exist in these stories. This is not surprising, as the exclusion of fat women and girls is abundant in mainstream culture.
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Body Relationship and the Fat Female ExperienceMcCrindle, Katie 22 November 2018 (has links)
Background: Fat people are subjected to oppression including medical “obesity” rhetoric and fat discrimination which may affect their ability to experience an embodied relationship with their bodies.
Aims: The aim of this study was to discover how self-identified fat female-bodied people understand their relationship with their bodies.
Methods: Six participants were recruited for semi-structured interviews which were then analyzed in a constant comparative method.
Findings: Five themes emerged from the data: dehumanization, acceptance of (the fat) body, empowerment, resistance, and dis<-->embodiment. Relationship with (the fat) body was identified by the participants as fraught with tension in a context that involves considering the positionality of “non-normative’ bodies, the value and importance of community, and a high degree of effort. / Thesis / Master of Social Work (MSW)
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The brothelization of gender and sexuality in late twentieth-century Latin American narrative and filmWhite, Burke Oliver 24 January 2011 (has links)
The brothel has an important role in Latin American literature and film. The fictional brothel is expected to produce gender in both men and women, but these gendered identities are placed at the extremes within the bordello. This gender extremism creates opposition, or gender transgression, in the characters of twentieth-century Latin American narrative and film. Here I map the brothelized iteration of both genders through prohibitions, taboo, abjection, and violence within various texts and films.
Much of the discipline of this cultural production of gender rests on the body. The body must bear the mark of its gender or the character risks violent consequences. Fatness plays an important role in this sexual economy, because fatness destroys gender, pushing the subject toward an androgyny that other characters reject or hate. Though the brothel has been studied before, it has not been analyzed from this gendered perspective. / text
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Living the Fat Body: Women's Experiences and Relationships with Their Bodies and Popular CultureMurphy, JoAnna R. 17 April 2018 (has links)
No description available.
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Corporeal (isms): Race, Gender, and Corpulence Performativity in Visual and Narrative CulturesCochran, Shannon M., Phd 25 October 2010 (has links)
No description available.
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Our Bodies Aren't Wonderlands : Disenchanting the MIS(sing)Representation of Women in Popular MusicMcPeake, Zoe 11 September 2018 (has links)
Through an intersectional feminist lens using Critical Discourse Analysis, this thesis investigates the representations of four prominent women, their embodiments and their sexualities in the lyrics of their songs.
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And yet here we areHalvarsson, Mio Elias January 2021 (has links)
This work is about representation and existing. I’m fat and transmasculine. I’m looking for a reflection in my surroundings, culture, in media and art. I can’t find it, so I have to create it myself. Through materialising bodies in clay that describe what fat transmasculine people can look like I aim to give myself and people who are similar to me something we’re lacking. I claim my existence.
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All Made-Up: The Hyperfeminization of Fat WomenMillimen, Sarah K. January 2015 (has links)
No description available.
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