"Body stories capture a nuanced, interconnected, interactive and complex telling of our understanding, perception and experience of and through our bodies. Plenty has been published on body image but image suggests a static fixed body unmitigated through our social interactions and varying times and spaces. This book is not a "how-to" guide for fat confidence. It's not a compendium of fat suffering. It's simply a collection of narratives about what it's like to survive in a weight-hating world. It resists the ways that marginalized bodies are being written and researched and put into other people's ideas about our existence. The stories in this book are celebratory and are painful. They look at intersections of race and queerness; they destabilize womanhood by presenting a range of possible female embodiments. They explore issues of disability and madness. The full range of possibilities that are collected here give a picture of what it means to live in a society with strong and powerful messages about size, about normalcy, about what a moral and healthy life and body look like. This book is a snapshot of its place and time, but these stories remind us that we're here to stay. The body stories will change but we will keep owning our own narratives. While story, especially written by women, is often seen as outside the academic canon, these stories, these creative offerings, are theory, are research, and are activism. They are nothing less than the blueprint for liberation. Writing about fat and about bodies outside of medicalized narratives, without ignoring the impact of race, sexuality, class, ability, gender, fashion, appearance and beyond, is radical and rigorous. It is impossible to think about the future without wishing for liberation. Liberation can come in many forms. It can mean an awareness, the ability to confront. The stories in this book display the ways that liberation isn't a finish line or a thing we can complete--rather it is a million small actions and understandings in aid of a renewed and hopeful world."-- Provided by publisher

lgrsnf/Literariness.org Body Stories- In and Out and With and Through Fat Jill Andrew.pdf

May Friedman; Jill Andrew

AmazonUs/INDPB

Canada - English Language, Canada

Bradford, Ontario, Canada, 2020

First, First Edition, PT, 2020

Dec 25, 2020

Source title: Body Stories: In and Out and With and Through Fat

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
1. Because I’m Fat, I Don’t Deserve Satisfaction? A Young Fat Woman’s Experience of Sex
2. “Neither Sari nor Sorry”: An Open Letter to the Indian Yummy Mummy
3. Beautiful/Ugly
4. “I’m Not Fat. I’m Pregnant”: A Critical Discussion of Current Debates in Body Size, Fatness, Pregnancy, and Motherhood
5. Eating While Fat: Mapping the Journey
6. (Not) Too Fat to Tango
7. “Who’s Afraid of the Big Fat Feminist”: An Autoethnographic Account of Fatness in Academic Feminist Spaces
8. The Rock Goddess in Large
9. The Unpopularity of Being Fat and Black in Popular Culture: A Case Study on Gabourey Sidibe
10. She Says
11. The Elephant in the (Class)room
12. “Your Wheelchair Is So Slim”: A Meditation on the Social Enactment of Beauty and Disability
13. My Body Is My Business
14. On Learning Self-Love: How One Curvy, Disabled Brown Femme Navigates the Body as a Site of Daily Struggle of Living with/in Pain
15. the line
16. Just What the Doctor Ordered? Interrogating the Narrative of Curing the Fat Body
17. Body Lessons
18. “Here Comes Fat May”: Learning and Relearning to Love My Body
19. My New Skin—Tattoos and Skin-Deep Body Love
20. A Call for Self-Love
21. Self-Acceptance: An Unfinished, Intergenerational Story
22. Braced
23. Lessons Learned from Fat Women on Television
24. Embodied: The Female Body as a Repository of Experience
25. Like It or Not: A Dose of Fat Activism for the Medical Community
26. “Men Are Not Dogs. They Don’t Throw Themselves on the Bones”: Fat as Desirable
27. Two Poems
28. Being Gentle with Myself: A Lifelong Work in Progress
29. Interpretation
30. We Are the Seeds: Reflections and Conversations on Beauty, Body Image, and Identity with Urban Indigenous Women in Toronto
31. Bowel Blues, Bowel Blows
Afterword
Notes on Contributors

2024-01-08