CAHSS Faculty Books and Book Chapters
Chapter Title
The Embodiment of Disobedience: Fat Black Women's Unruly Political Bodies
Department
Department of Literature and Modern Languages
Files
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Document Type
Book
Description
Despite the West's privileging of slenderness as an aesthetic ideal, the African Diaspora has historically displayed a resistance to the Western European and North American indulgence in "fat anxiety." 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. Author Andrea Shaw explores the origins and contradictions of this phenomenon, especially the cultural deviations in beauty criteria and the related social and cultural practices. Unique in its examination of how both fatness and blackness interact on literary cultural planes, this book also offers a diasporic scope that develops previously unexamined connections among female representations throughout the African Diaspora.
ISBN
9780739114872
Publication Date
7-28-2006
Publisher
Lexington Books
City
Lanham, MD
Keywords
African diaspora, black women, body image, fat, fat-anxiety, female representation, political bodies
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Social and Behavioral Sciences
First Page
1
Last Page
162
NSUWorks Citation
Shaw-Nevins, A. E. (2006). The Embodiment of Disobedience: Fat Black Women's Unruly Political Bodies., 1-162. Retrieved from https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_facbooks/175