Becoming smaller: Autobiographical spaces of weight loss

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Becoming smaller: Autobiographical spaces of weight loss

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University of Waikato

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Description

This research focuses on the spaces and politics of weight loss. It is informed by “fat studies”, critical geographical scholarship on fat, and two contrasting feminist readings of Michel Foucault's notion of “care of the self”. Using autobiography as a method of inquiry I share my experience of “becoming smaller” through weight loss dieting. I argue that losing weight for me has been paradoxical on at least three counts: first, by being a feminist scholar who critiques discourses around wome...

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Research paper

Research format

Journal article

Date created

2011

Creator

Longhurst, Robyn

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10289/5547

Related subjects

fat / weight loss / autobiography / feminism / body / women / paradox

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