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THE STRUGGLE TO REDEFINE FAT IDENTITY Kathieen LeBesco oe SR LIBRA Toledo, Ohio 43699 RC 628 .L43 2004 LeBesco, Kathleen, 1970- Revolting bodies? DATE DUE - baB N UE tm cue S SEP 3.0 2004 WY o 5 A oe =}= D: S wao=esFse Pj|S=eee x i ss a ) =——‘> a =< 1 , &J Be = a 2 _= GAYLORD PRINTED IN U.S.A Revolting Bodies? LIBRARY OWENS COMMUNITY COLLEGE P.O. Box 10,000 Tfroalleadd o, OhYI. i?e 4In3 6A9A9R Revolting Bodies? Seine: cel cel 6) gel jee el) ‘oo. 0e el (eje.e) o (67 Ae) 0) sei) 0) 6) @0Ge je, je) ‘0, “ene THE STRUGGLE TO REDEFINE FAQ [DEN TET.Y Kathleen LeBesco University of Massachusetts Press Amherst and Boston Copyright © 2004 by University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 2003013815 ISBN 1-55849-428-6 (library cloth edition); 429-4 (paper) Designed by Jack Harrison Set in Sabon with Gill Sans display by Binghamton Valley Composition Printed and bound by The Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data LeBesco, Kathleen, 1970-— Revolting bodies? : the struggle to redefine fat identity / Kathleen LeBesco. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-55849-428-6 (lib. cloth ed. : alk. paper) — ISBN 1-55849-429-4 (papers alk. paper) 1. Obesity—Social aspects. I. Title. RC628 .L36 2004 362.1'96398—de21 2003013815 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available. Ene LIBRARY OWENS COMMUNITY COLLEGE P.O. Box 10,000 Toledo, Ohie 43699 Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: The Discourse of Revolt 1 1. Organization and Embodiment: Politicizing and Historicizing Fatness 10 2. Antidotes to Medical Discourse about Fatness 29 3. Sexy/Beautiful/Fat 40 4. Citizen Profane: Consumerism, Class, Race, and Body 54 5. Revolution on a Rack: Fatness, Fashion, and Commodification 65 6. Framing Fatness: Popular Representations of Obesity as Disability 74 7. The Queerness of Fat 85 8. The Resignification of Fat in Cyberspace 98 9. Fat Politics and the Will to Innocence 111 Notes 125 References 143 Index 153 aah Acknowledgments This book was fueled by excitement and pain, frustration with the way things are and imagination about the way things could be, and the none- too-occasional Ben and Jerry’s sugar rush. Much personal and profes- sional support has been provided to me during this period of research and writing, and many thanks are in order for the insights of my col- leagues, friends, and family. For early-inning encouragement and guidance, I thank Leda Cooks, Lisa Henderson, Jane Blankenship, and Barbara Cruikshank; their critical eyes and thoughtful feedback were invaluable in helping me to develop the project. Friends and former colleagues in the Department of Com- munication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and elsewhere engaged me in lively intellectual discussions and have helped to keep my flesh happy as well. I am especially indebted to Tami Battin, Margaret Burggren, Melissa Click, Justine Dymond, Louis Faassen, Julie Frechette, Paula Gardner, Meg Honsinger, Nina Huntemann, Nancy Inouye, Kem- brew McLeod, Laurie Ouellette, Saila Poutiainen, Katherine Sender, Tim Shary, Alissa Sklar, and Karen Wolf-Wilkins. Also, W. E. B. Du Bois librarians Emily Silverman, J. Mike Davis, and Jill Ausel were of great assistance to me in locating references for the project. Parts of several chapters originally appeared elsewhere. Portions of the introduction and chapter 7 first materialized within the editor’s introduc- tion and the chapter “Queering Fat Bodies/Politics” in Bodies Out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression, edited by Jana Evans Braziel and Kathleen LeBesco. Copyright © 2001 by The Regents of the University of California. Reprinted by permission of the University of California Press. Chapter 8 was published in slightly different form as “Revolting Bodies: The Resignification of Fat in Cyberspace” in Technospaces: Inside the New Media, edited by Sally R. Munt (London; New York: Contin- uum, 2001). Reprinted by permission of The Continuum International Publishing Group. : Vil
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