Clothing the lived fat body

Kristin Rodier

doi:10.1386/cc.1.2.171_1

ISSN: 2050-0742
E-ISSN: 2050-0750

Clothing the lived fat body
By Kristin Rodier¹
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Affiliations: ¹ University of Alberta
Source: Clothing Cultures, Volume 1, Issue 2, Mar 2014, p. 171 - 178
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/cc.1.2.171_1
Language: English
- Published online: 01 Mar 2014

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In this article I consider the lived fat body and its relation to clothing by thinking fat experience as analogous to the situation of women as laid out in The Second Sex ([1949, 1951] 2010).

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Keyword(s): Beauvoir; clothing; fatness; gender; phenomenology; stereotypes; stigma

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