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dc.contributor.authorKyrölä, Katariina
dc.contributor.authorHarjunen, Hannele
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-07T09:48:27Z
dc.date.available2017-08-07T09:48:27Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationKyrölä, K., & Harjunen, H. (2017). Phantom/liminal fat and feminist theories of the body. <i>Feminist Theory</i>, <i>18</i>(2), 99-117. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700117700035" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700117700035</a>
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dc.identifier.otherTUTKAID_73429
dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/54999
dc.description.abstractThis article brings together two concepts, ‘phantom fat’ and ‘liminal fat’, which both aim to grasp how fat in contemporary culture becomes a kind of material immateriality, corporeality in suspension. Comparing the spheres of representation and experience, we examine the challenges and usefulness of these concepts, and feminist fat studies perspectives more broadly, to feminist scholarship on the body. We ask what connects and disconnects fat corporeality and fat studies from ways of theorising other embodied differences, like gender, ‘race’, disability, class and sexuality, especially when thinking through their perceived mutability or removability, and assumptions about their relevance for subjectivity. While it is important to consider corporeality and selfhood as malleable and open to change in order to mobilise oppressive normativities around gendered bodies and selves, we argue that more attention should also be paid to the persistence of corporeality and a feeling of a relatively stable self, and the potential for empowerment in not engaging with or idealising continuous transformation and becoming. Furthermore, we suggest that the concepts of phantom fat and liminal fat can help shed light on some problematic ways in which feminist studies have approached – or not approached – questions of fat corporeality in relation to the politics of health and bodily appearance. Questions of weight, when critically interrogated together with other axes of difference, highlight how experiential and subjugated knowledges, as well as critical inquiry of internal prejudices, must remain of continued key importance to feminist projects.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSage
dc.relation.ispartofseriesFeminist Theory
dc.subject.otherkeho
dc.subject.otherkehonkuva
dc.subject.otherexperience
dc.subject.otherfat
dc.subject.otherfeminist fat studies
dc.subject.otherrepresentation
dc.titlePhantom/liminal fat and feminist theories of the body
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:jyu-201707213348
dc.contributor.laitosYhteiskuntatieteiden ja filosofian laitosfi
dc.contributor.laitosDepartment of Social Sciences and Philosophyen
dc.contributor.oppiaineSukupuolentutkimusfi
dc.contributor.oppiaineGender Studiesen
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle
dc.date.updated2017-07-21T09:15:09Z
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dc.description.reviewstatuspeerReviewed
dc.format.pagerange99-117
dc.relation.issn1464-7001
dc.relation.numberinseries2
dc.relation.volume18
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dc.rights.copyright© The Author(s) 2017. This is a final draft version of an article whose final and definitive form has been published by SAGE. Published in this repository with the kind permission of the publisher.
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dc.subject.ysoruumiinkuva
dc.subject.ysolihavuus
dc.subject.ysofeministinen teoria
dc.subject.ysominäkuva
dc.subject.ysoruumis
dc.subject.ysotietämys
dc.subject.ysoliminaalisuus
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dc.relation.doi10.1177/1464700117700035
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