Revolting bodies? The on-line negotiation of fat subjectivity

The dissertation investigates the embodied experience of fatness in spaces between subjectivity and subjection on one Internet newsgroup and one listserve. Literature on identity politics, computer-mediated communication, and the social construction of the body is reviewed as it relates to the possi...

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Main Author: LeBesco, Kathleen
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 1998
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9909180