Fat Gay Men : : Girth, Mirth, and the Politics of Stigma / / Jason Whitesel.
To be fat in a thin-obsessed gay culturecan be difficult. Despite affectionate in-group monikers for big gay men–chubs,bears, cubs–the anti-fat stigma that persists in American culture at largestill haunts these individuals who often exist at the margins of gaycommunities. In Fat Gay Men, JasonWhite...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Intersections ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. An ethnographer among girth & mirthers
- 1. Coming together
- 2. Injuries big gay men suffer
- 3. Performing the fat body
- 4. Big gay men’s struggle for class distinction
- 5. Shame reconfigured
- Conclusion. Beyond simply managing stigma
- Methodological appendix
- Theoretical appendix. Analytical framework of stigma, camp, carnival, and play
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the author