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Living the Fat Body: Women's Experiences and Relationships with Their Bodies and Popular Culture

Murphy, JoAnna R.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1515055091898279

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2018, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, American Culture Studies.
Beginning from Foucault’s notion that “where there is power, there is resistance,” I uncover how fat people are at any given time accepting, resisting, and/or subverting the oppressive power embedded in social norms surrounding their bodies (95). Each chapter reveals a new layer, a new complication as to how, why, and when individuals are (un)able, (un)willing, and/or (un)certain about how they can and are treating their own and other people’s fat bodies. In my study, I take as a given that behavior is fluid, ever changing, shifting, and in progress. My study demonstrates how media messages are being accepted, resisted, re-appropriated, altered, internalized, and/or ignored by individuals; thus, my study brings focus to the complex relationships fat people have surrounding their subjectivity, their sense of power, agency, and ability to resist, as well as the interplay of the intersections of their social identities, and their sense of embodiment and the performance of their fat body.
Lesa Lockford, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Sandra Faulkner, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Kimberly Coates, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Madeline Duntley, Ph.D. (Other)
179 p.
American Studies; Gender; Mass Media
Fat, Popular Culture; Representation of Fat Bodies; Qualitative Interviews; Bodies; Fat Studies; Cultural Studies; Interdisciplinary; Resistance; Subversion

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  • Murphy, J. R. (2018). Living the Fat Body: Women's Experiences and Relationships with Their Bodies and Popular Culture [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1515055091898279

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Murphy, JoAnna. Living the Fat Body: Women's Experiences and Relationships with Their Bodies and Popular Culture . 2018. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1515055091898279.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Murphy, JoAnna. "Living the Fat Body: Women's Experiences and Relationships with Their Bodies and Popular Culture ." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1515055091898279

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