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Developmental Psychology

Duquesne University

2023

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Embodied Fatness In Boys: A Critical Phenomenological Study, Sean Leadem May 2023

Embodied Fatness In Boys: A Critical Phenomenological Study, Sean Leadem

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This dissertation was an exploratory study of experiences of fatness in boyhood using a hermeneutic phenomenological qualitative method. The author conducted in-depth, open-ended interviews with participants who identify as men and for whom fatness or related body-difference was an issue in childhood or adolescence to gather data on the meanings of fatness for boys and the men they become. Data analysis was organized around the existential dimensions of embodiment, temporality, and relationality. Themes emerging from this analysis included a) the discovery of fatness as ambiguous meanings mediated by others, b) fatness as a problem in a horizon that does not …