07643nam a22005415i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001000153072001600163072002300179072001500202100007700217245011300294250001800407264007900425300003500504336002600539337002600565338003600591347002400627490008600651505029400737520544001031650003206471650000906503650001406512650002106526650001206547650001306559650002706572650002006599650003406619650002306653650002606676650002306702700007606725710003406801773002606835776003606861776003606897776003606933830008606969856004607055978-3-031-54453-8DE-He21320251030111816.0cr nn 008mamaa240412s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830315445387 a10.1007/978-3-031-54453-82doi 4aHM636 7aJHB2bicssc 7aSOC0260002bisacsh 7aJHB2thema1 aKotow, Crystal.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut14aThe Hidden Lives of Big Beautiful Womenh[electronic resource] /cby Crystal Kotow ; edited by May Friedman.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXVII, 210 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aPalgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference,x2752-73600 aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Ways of Knowing and Seeing Fat -- Chapter 3: Methods and epistemologies -- Chapter 4: Interrupting Embodiment—Normalizing Gazes and Diet Culture in BBW -- Chapter 5: Bashes as Spaces for Healing Everyday Trauma of Fatphobia -- Chapter 6: Conclusion.  aThis book is a deep dive into the largely unexplored space of BBW “bashes”—multi-day gatherings of fat women and their admirers. Using a range of feminist theories of embodiment and affect, the project is guided by autoethnography and in-depth interviews with twelve participants. Participant experiences are first analyzed with a key focus on experiences that cause grief and disenfranchisement; subsequently, the book looks at experiences that may be radical or revelatory. The book does not seek to either villainize or valorize BBW spaces but instead sheds a bright light on the experience of this cultural subspace and all it may offer to analyses fat life. The incomparable Crystal Kotow was a brilliant writer, activist, and educator whose research explored fat women’s relationships with their bodies. She got her PhD from York University and was a self-identified fat feminist killjoy who practiced radical vulnerability in her activism, storytelling, and community building. May Friedman is a faculty member at Toronto Metropolitan University. Much of May’s work explores issues of fat activism and weight stigma in many different settings. Using a range of arts-based methods including digital storytelling as well as analyses of treasured garments, May has explored meaning making and representation in relation to embodiment and experience. May Friedman is a faculty member at Toronto Metropolitan University. Much of May’s work explores issues of fat activism and weight stigma in many different settings. Using a range of arts-based methods including digital storytelling as well as analyses of treasured garments, May has explored meaning making and representation in relation to embodiment and experience.May Friedman is a faculty member at Toronto Metropolitan University. Much of May’s work explores issues of fat activism and weight stigma in many different settings. Using a range of arts-based methods including digital storytelling as well as analyses of treasured garments, May has explored meaning making and representation in relation to embodiment and experience.May Friedman is a faculty member at Toronto Metropolitan University. Much of May’s work explores issues of fat activism and weight stigma in many different settings. Using a range of arts-based methods including digital storytelling as well as analyses of treasured garments, May has explored meaning making and representation in relation to embodiment and experience.May Friedman is a faculty member at Toronto Metropolitan University. Much of May’s work explores issues of fat activism and weight stigma in many different settings. Using a range of arts-based methods including digital storytelling as well as analyses of treasured garments, May has explored meaning making and representation in relation to embodiment and experience.May Friedman is a faculty member at Toronto Metropolitan University. Much of May’s work explores issues of fat activism and weight stigma in many different settings. Using a range of arts-based methods including digital storytelling as well as analyses of treasured garments, May has explored meaning making and representation in relation to embodiment and experience.May Friedman is a faculty member at Toronto Metropolitan University. Much of May’s work explores issues of fat activism and weight stigma in many different settings. Using a range of arts-based methods including digital storytelling as well as analyses of treasured garments, May has explored meaning making and representation in relation to embodiment and experience.May Friedman is a faculty member at Toronto Metropolitan University. Much of May’s work explores issues of fat activism and weight stigma in many different settings. Using a range of arts-based methods including digital storytelling as well as analyses of treasured garments, May has explored meaning making and representation in relation to embodiment and experience.May Friedman is a faculty member at Toronto Metropolitan University. Much of May’s work explores issues of fat activism and weight stigma in many different settings. Using a range of arts-based methods including digital storytelling as well as analyses of treasured garments, May has explored meaning making and representation in relation to embodiment and experience.May Friedman is a faculty member at Toronto Metropolitan University. Much of May’s work explores issues of fat activism and weight stigma in many different settings. Using a range of arts-based methods including digital storytelling as well as analyses of treasured garments, May has explored meaning making and representation in relation to embodiment and experience.May Friedman is a faculty member at Toronto Metropolitan University. Much of May’s work explores issues of fat activism and weight stigma in many different settings. Using a range of arts-based methods including digital storytelling as well as analyses of treasured garments, May has explored meaning making and representation in relation to embodiment and experience. May Friedman is a faculty member at Toronto Metropolitan University. Much of May’s work explores issues of fat activism and weight stigma in many different settings. Using a range of arts-based methods including digital storytelling as well as analyses of treasured garments, May has explored meaning making and representation in relation to embodiment and experience. 0aHuman bodyxSocial aspects. 0aSex. 0aFeminism. 0aFeminist theory. 0aHealth. 0aCulture.14aSociology of the Body.24aGender Studies.24aFeminism and Feminist Theory.24aGender and Health.24aSociology of Culture.24aSexuality Studies.1 aFriedman, May.eeditor.4edt4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303154452108iPrinted edition:z978303154454508iPrinted edition:z9783031544552 0aPalgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference,x2752-736040uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54453-8