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Leer el cuerpo gordo : miradas a la narrativa mexicana contemporánea desde la adipocrítica
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ISBN: 9786074178173 Year: 2021 Publisher: Ciudad de México : Universidad Iberoamericana,

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Excess and embodiment in contemporary women's writing
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ISBN: 3838259785 9783838259789 9783898219785 389821978X Year: 2011 Publisher: Stuttgart

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The 'obese' female body has often been portrayed as the 'other' to the slender body. However, this process of 'othering', or viewing as different, has created a repressive discourse, where 'excess' has increasingly come to be studied as a 'physical abnormality' or a signifier of a 'personality defect' in contemporary Western society. This book engages with the multifarious re-imaginings of the 'excessive' embodiment in contemporary women's writing, drawing specifically on the construction of this form of embodiment in the works of Fay Weldon, Jeanette Winterson, Margaret Atwood, Claude Tardat,


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Historicizing Fat in Anglo-american Culture
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ISBN: 0814270905 0814211356 0814257356 Year: 2010 Publisher: Columbus : Ohio State University Press,

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