Liberating Fat Bodies: Social Media Censorship and Body Size Activism

Bishop, Wesley R., Rigakos, Bessie N.

Liberating Fat Bodies: Social Media Censorship and Body Size Activism
  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2024-07-10
  • 售價: $1,920
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,824
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 133
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 3031638891
  • ISBN-13: 9783031638893

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商品描述

Using a multidisciplinary and intersectional approach, this book explores the social factors that influence the extent to which societal norms force women to self-police their bodies. Chapters examine racist and colonial constructions of Western beauty norms as well as the evolution of fatphobia and fat liberation before delving into the relationship between media and body positivity, with a particular emphasis on the censorship and self-censorship of bodies on social media and resistances to such forms of policing. The authors draw on first-person narratives from members of the "Femme FATales," a plus-size burlesque troupe from Chicago in order to unpack how these women use their bodies to transform the negative social perception of fat people and challenge negative body image.

This book will be of interest to scholars and students in Sociology, Gender Studies, History, and Media Studies who research body image and beauty norms.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

本書採用多學科和交叉性的方法，探討影響社會規範迫使女性自我監控身體的社會因素。各章節檢視了西方美學規範的種族主義和殖民建構，以及肥胖恐懼症和肥胖解放的演變，然後深入探討媒體與身體正面形象之間的關係，特別強調社交媒體上身體的審查和自我審查，以及對這些監控形式的抵抗。作者引用了來自「Femme FATales」的成員的第一人稱敘述，這是一個來自芝加哥的豐滿女性脫衣舞團，旨在揭示這些女性如何利用自己的身體來改變社會對肥胖者的負面看法，並挑戰負面的身體形象。

本書將吸引社會學、性別研究、歷史和媒體研究領域的學者和學生，特別是那些研究身體形象和美學規範的人士。

作者簡介

Wesley R. Bishop is an Assistant Professor of History in the Department of History and Foreign Languages at Jacksonville State University, USA. He has written on the topic of social movements and political thought, and has conducted research on American Populism, the creation of the New Deal Era, and the body size activism movement.

Bessie N. Rigakos, Ph.D is a Vice President and Dean at Marian University's Saint Joseph's College, Indianapolis IN, USA. Her scholarly activity focuses on the policing and self-policing of women's bodies through beauty norms and body work, and she has conducted research on the attitudes towards women's body hair removal from public and private areas and the methods of depilation used.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Wesley R. Bishop 是美國傑克遜維爾州立大學歷史與外語系的助理教授。他的研究主題包括社會運動和政治思想，並對美國的人民主義、新政時代的形成以及身體尺寸行動主義運動進行了研究。

Bessie N. Rigakos 博士是美國印第安納州印第安納波利斯的瑪麗安大學聖約瑟夫學院的副校長兼院長。她的學術活動專注於透過美麗標準和身體工作對女性身體的監控和自我監控，並對女性在公共和私人領域的體毛去除態度及所使用的脫毛方法進行了研究。

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