| Excess and Embodiment in Contemporary Women's Writing UK Edition Contributor(s): Atayurt, Zeynep (Author) |
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ISBN: 389821978X ISBN-13: 9783898219785 Publisher: Ibidem Press OUR PRICE: $38.61 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Feminist - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
| Series: Studies in English Literatures |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.57 lbs) 212 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The 'obese' female body has often been portrayed as the 'other' to the slender body. However, this process of 'othering', or viewing as different, has created a repressive discourse, where 'excess' has increasingly come to be studied as a 'physical abnormality' or a signifier of a 'personality defect' in contemporary Western society. This book engages with the multifarious re-imaginings of the 'excessive' embodiment in contemporary women's writing, drawing specifically on the construction of this form of embodiment in the works of Fay Weldon, Jeanette Winterson, Margaret Atwood, Claude Tardat, and Judith Moore, whose texts offer a distinct literary response to the rigidly homogeneous and limiting representations of fatness, while prompting heterogeneous approaches to reading the 'excessive' female embodiment. |