Liberating Fat Bodies Social Media Censorship and Body Size Activism

Using a multidisciplinary and intersectional approach, this book explores the social factors that influence the ways in which societal norms police fat bodies. Chapters examine the racist and colonial constructions of Western beauty norms as well as the evolution of anti-fat bias and fat liberation,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bishop, Wesley R., Rigakos, Bessie N. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2024, 2024
Edition:1st ed. 2024
Subjects:
Sex
Online Access:
Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1: Liberating Fat Bodies and Online Censorship
  • 2: Working while Fat in the Age of the Internet
  • 3: Media and the Ideal Body
  • 4: Fatness and the Need for a Public
  • 5: Social Media as Tool and Hinderance
  • 6: The 26 Words that Created the Internet and the Future of Online Art and Activism