Author: Braziel, Jana Evans & LeBesco, Kathleen; editors:
Title: Bodies out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (2001). orig. cloth. 23x15cm, viii,360 pp. Textual illustrations.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 15 papers. Includes: R. Klein: "Fat Beauty"; J.L. Huff: "A ' Horror of Corpulence': Interrogating Bantingism and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Fat-Phobia"; C. Hartley: "Letting Ourselves Go: Making Room for the Fat Body in Feminist Scholarship"; K. Lebesco: "Queering Fat Bodies/Politics"; M. Chamberlain: "Oscar Zeta Acosta's Recipe for Chicano Revolution"; A. Losano & B.A. Risch: "Resisting Venus: Negotiating Corpulence in Exercise Videos"; L. Kent: "Fighting Abjection: Representing Fat Women"; N. Ulaby: "Roscoe Arbuckle and the Scandal of Fatness"; J. Mosher: "Setting Free the Bears: Refiguring Fat Men on Television"; A. Stukator: " 'It's not over until the fat lady sings': Comedy, the Carnivalesque, and Body Politics"; S. Shieff: "Devouring Women: Coporeality and Autonomy in Fiction by Women Since the 1960s"; J.E. Braziel: "Sex and Fat Chics: Deterritorializing the Fat Female Body"; S. Mazer: " 'She's so fat ...': Facing the Fat Lady at Coney Island's Sideshows by the Seashore"; P. Kuppers: "'Fatties on Stage: Feminist Performances"; M. Moon & E.K. Sedgwick: "Divinity: A Dossier, a Performance Piece, a Little-Understood Emotion".

Keywords: Psychological Sociology, Obesity, Fatness, Overweight Women, Body Image, United States, Appearance Based, Discrimination, Social Psychology