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Being called fat and treated as such is as important in identity formation as a number on the BMI (Body Mass Index). The authors note having to be the funny one, the one fat friend, the one with the pretty face, while continually navigating family, social, education, medical, and sexual spaces with...

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Published in:Frontiers (Boulder) 2019-09, Vol.40 (3), p.174-176
Main Author: Pillow, Wanda S
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Apologies
Essays
False information
Lorde, Audre
Morality
Society
Women
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Summary:Being called fat and treated as such is as important in identity formation as a number on the BMI (Body Mass Index). The authors note having to be the funny one, the one fat friend, the one with the pretty face, while continually navigating family, social, education, medical, and sexual spaces with apologies for not fitting in. Bordo's refusal to live a life doing battle with one's own body, Hopson's understating of living "Not tragically fat!," Felkins's recognition of "state-sanctioned labeling" and "morality attached to physicality," and Kozlowski's embracing of the grace of her whole body speak to how women in their thirties to seventies are challenging society's gaze by living, as Hopson says, "our absolute best (fat) lives."
ISSN:0160-9009
1536-0334