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dc.contributor.authorRugseth, Gro
dc.contributor.authorEngelsrud, Gunn
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-16T13:26:51Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-23T12:56:45Z
dc.date.available2017-11-16T13:26:51Z
dc.date.available2018-01-23T12:56:45Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationRugseth G, Engelsrud G. Staging fatness. Fat Studies: an interdisciplinary journal of body weight and society. 2017;6(3):281-293en
dc.identifier.issn2160-4851
dc.identifier.issn2160-486X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10642/5549
dc.description.abstractThe authors address the possible transformative role of staging fatness. Using their experience as audience members at a performance of My life as a fat person, they produce three anecdotes to discuss if and how staging the fat body can destabilize the social and cultural discourse about fatness. Elaborating on theoretical perspectives from fat studies and using the staring encounter as the key concept, the authors analyze the fat performance as an emotional, intercorporeal event. It is essential for the performer to affect members of the audience, even while running the risk of reproducing stereotypes about fatness. The authors’ analysis indicates that the actress in My life as a fat person creates a reflective space that allows the audience to recognize their own fear of fat and to discover fatness as a phenomenon created between people in a social context. The authors conclude that the performance My life as a fat person challenges simplistic responses toward fat bodies and contributes to the creation of a new story about fatness.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen
dc.rightsThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Fat Studies: an interdisciplinary journal of body weight and society, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2017.1298930.en
dc.subjectFat performanceen
dc.subjectFatnessen
dc.subjectStereotypesen
dc.subjectStaringen
dc.titleStaging fatnessen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.typePeer revieweden
dc.date.updated2017-11-16T13:26:51Z
dc.description.versionacceptedVersionen
dc.identifier.doihttp://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2017.1298930
dc.identifier.cristin1459825
dc.source.journalFat Studies: an interdisciplinary journal of body weight and society


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