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Fat Cyborgs: Body Positive Activism, Shifting Rhetorics and Identity Politics in the Fatosphere

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2016, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, English (Rhetoric and Writing) PhD.
"Fat Cyborgs: Body Positive Activism, Shifting Rhetorics and Identity Politics in the Fatosphere" is a project that illuminates how activist groups intersect technology with their activism. I observe and investigate the ways that Fat Acceptance (FA) and Health at Every Size (HAES) supporters and allies build and sustain an activist community online. I do this in order to understand how fat activists negotiate identity and the body online, a space often considered sans corpus. This project involves examining and extrapolating activists' literate and rhetorical practices for creating and sharing knowledge. I am most interested in understanding the ways in which fat activists use the Fatosphere to develop alternatives to oppressive and discriminatory discourses. I explore the issues that are raised by the FA movement, particularly in how FA and HAES takes shape in a subversive way in an online environment. In doing so, I develop a critical skill-set to talk about and negotiate the body and its relationship with technology, and in particular, the digital, personal/political heterotopias and affect more positive discourse.
Kristine Blair (Advisor)
Sue Carter-Wood (Committee Co-Chair)
Lee Nickoson (Committee Member)
Michael Arrigo (Other)
124 p.

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  • Taylor, A. N. (2016). Fat Cyborgs: Body Positive Activism, Shifting Rhetorics and Identity Politics in the Fatosphere [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1479311506093833

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Taylor, Aimee. Fat Cyborgs: Body Positive Activism, Shifting Rhetorics and Identity Politics in the Fatosphere. 2016. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1479311506093833.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Taylor, Aimee. "Fat Cyborgs: Body Positive Activism, Shifting Rhetorics and Identity Politics in the Fatosphere." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1479311506093833

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)