Author: Kathleen Lebesco
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1558494294
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1558494294
Revolting Bodies?: The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity
Viewed as both unhealthy and unattractive, fat people are widely represented in popular culture and in interpersonal interactions as revolting as agents of abhorrence and disgust. Get Revolting Bodies? diet books 2013 for free.
Yet if we think about "revolting" in a different way, Kathleen LeBesco argues, we can recognize fatness as not simply an aesthetic state or a medical condition, but a political one. If we think of revolting in terms of overthrowing authority, rebelling, protesting, and rejecting, then corpulence carries a whole new weight as a subversive cultural practice that calls into question received notions about health, beauty, and nature.
Revolting Bodies examines a number of sites of struggle over the cultural meaning of fatness. The book is grounded in scholarship Check Revolting Bodies? our best diet books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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