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The Embodiment of Disobedience: Fat Black Women's Unruly Political Bodies
Author(s): Andrea Elizabeth Shaw (Author)
- Publisher: Lexington Books
- Publication Date: 27 July 2006
- Language: English
- Print length: 162 pages
- ISBN-10: 0739114867
- ISBN-13: 9780739114865
Book Description
Despite the West’s privileging of slenderness as an aesthetic ideal, the African Diaspora has historically displayed a resistance to the Western European and North American indulgence in ‘fat anxiety.’ The Embodiment of Disobedience explores the ways in which the African Diaspora has rejected the West’s efforts to impose imperatives of slenderness and mass market fat-anxiety. Author Andrea Shaw explores the origins and contradictions of this phenomenon, especially the cultural deviations in beauty criteria and the related social and cultural practices. Unique in its examination of how both fatness and blackness interact on literary cultural planes, this book also offers a diasporic scope that develops previously unexamined connections among female representations throughout the African Diaspora.
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About the Author
Andrea Elizabeth Shaw is Assistant Director of the Division of Humanities and Assistant Professor of English at Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
