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Title: | Body Relationship and the Fat Female Experience |
Authors: | McCrindle, Katie |
Advisor: | Fudge Schormans, Ann |
Department: | Social Work |
Keywords: | fat studies, critical disability theory, feminist theory, embodiment, fat oppression, size oppression, dehumanization, acceptance, resistance, empowerment, disembodiment |
Publication Date: | 22-Nov-2018 |
Abstract: | Background: Fat people are subjected to oppression including medical “obesity” rhetoric and fat discrimination which may affect their ability to experience an embodied relationship with their bodies. Aims: The aim of this study was to discover how self-identified fat female-bodied people understand their relationship with their bodies. Methods: Six participants were recruited for semi-structured interviews which were then analyzed in a constant comparative method. Findings: Five themes emerged from the data: dehumanization, acceptance of (the fat) body, empowerment, resistance, and dis<-->embodiment. Relationship with (the fat) body was identified by the participants as fraught with tension in a context that involves considering the positionality of “non-normative’ bodies, the value and importance of community, and a high degree of effort. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/24710 |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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