Author, as appears in the article.: Casado-Marin, Lina; Gracia-Arnaiz, Mabel
Department: Antropologia Infermeria
URV's Author/s: Casadó Marín, Lina Cristina / Gracia Arnaiz, Maria Isabel
Keywords: Stigma Spain Social networks Multiple bodies Fat activism spain social networks multiple bodies
Abstract: © 2019, © 2019 Taylor & Francis. Hegemonic representations of body size and beauty often have negative and painful impacts on fat people. Fat individuals face social discrimination because of the stigma associated with fatness and because of weight-based stereotypes. In Spain, fat activism has emerged in the last decade. Social networks are used by this movement as one of the principal means of redefining fatness and disputing prescriptive standards of body health and beauty. The narratives and iconography found on these websites, managed mainly by women, contest fat phobia not only by advocating for inclusive public policies, but also by reclaiming fatness as a possible form of subversive identity. This identity is constructed by challenging the representation of fat bodies as diseased and in need of medical intervention, and emphasizes recognition of variability in and multiple experiences of body size.
Thematic Areas: Social sciences, interdisciplinary Social psychology Nutrition and dietetics Health (social science) Gender studies Cultural studies Ciencias sociales Anthropology
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 21604851
Author's mail: linacristina.casado@urv.cat mabel.gracia@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-8078-1673 0000-0002-6429-6395
Paper data publication: 2019-08-12
Record's date: 2024-10-12
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0898589815000819
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Fat Studies. 9 (1): 51-70
APA: Casado-Marin, Lina; Gracia-Arnaiz, Mabel (2020). “I’m Fat and Proud of It”: Body Size Diversity and Fat Acceptance Activism in Spain. Fat Studies, 9(1), 51-70. DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2019.1648994
Article's DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2019.1648994
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2020
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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