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“I’m Fat and Proud of It”: Body Size Diversity and Fat Acceptance Activism in Spain

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    Identificador:  imarina:5809643
    Autores:  Casado-Marin, Lina; Gracia-Arnaiz, Mabel
    Resumen:
    © 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.
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    Enlace a la fuente original: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0898589815000819
    Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes 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
    Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Fat Studies. 9 (1): 51-70
    DOI del artículo: 10.1080/21604851.2019.1648994
    Año de publicación de la revista: 2020
    Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion
    Fecha de alta del registro: 2024-10-12
    Autor/es de la URV: Casadó Marín, Lina Cristina / Gracia Arnaiz, Maria Isabel
    Departamento: Antropologia, Infermeria
    URL Documento de licencia: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications
    ISSN: 21604851
    Autor según el artículo: Casado-Marin, Lina; Gracia-Arnaiz, Mabel
    Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Áreas temáticas: Social sciences, interdisciplinary, Social psychology, Nutrition and dietetics, Health (social science), Gender studies, Cultural studies, Ciencias sociales, Anthropology
    Fecha de publicacion del artículo: 2019-08-12
    Direcció de correo del autor: linacristina.casado@urv.cat, mabel.gracia@urv.cat
  • Palabras clave:

    Stigma
    Spain
    Social networks
    Multiple bodies
    Fat activism
    Anthropology
    Cultural Studies
    Gender Studies
    Health (Social Science)
    Nutrition and Dietetics
    Social Psychology
    Social Sciences
    Interdisciplinary
    Ciencias sociales
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