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Fat Girls: Sexuality, Transgression, And Fatness In Popular Culture, Maryann Kozlowski
Fat Girls: Sexuality, Transgression, And Fatness In Popular Culture, Maryann Kozlowski
Theses and Dissertations--Gender and Women's Studies
This dissertation focuses on representations, histories, and personal accounts of fat women’s bodies and sexualities. I address stereotypes and representations of fat women's sexuality in popular culture, including film, advertising, television, and literature. Through this examination, I move beyond one-dimensional representations of fat women's sexualities to a more complex, nuanced understanding of the realities of being fat, sexual, and a woman today. Fat women are often represented as either sexless, miserable, and lonely, or alternately, hypersexual and sexually deviant, with the inability to control their appetites for both food and sex. (see Bordo, Gilman, Farrell, Shaw, Wolf) By parsing through …