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dc.contributor.authorPuhakka, Anna
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-26T04:43:20Z
dc.date.available2023-06-26T04:43:20Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationPuhakka, A. (2019). Can ambivalence hold potential for fat activism? An analysis of conflicting discourses on fatness in the Finnish column series Jenny’s Life Change. <i>Fat Studies</i>, <i>8</i>(1), 60-74. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2019.1534458" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2019.1534458</a>
dc.identifier.otherCONVID_28713078
dc.identifier.otherTUTKAID_79462
dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/88045
dc.description.abstractIn 2017, a publicly funded, nationwide campaign called the Scale Rebellion set out to address fatness through body positivity and fat activism in Finland, with a fat woman named Jenny Lehtinen having a particularly visible role as its figurehead. Some critics of the campaign maintained that Lehtinen’s communication lacked focus and was self-contradicting, especially concerning her wish to lose weight. I conducted discourse analysis of a pertinent element of the Scale Rebellion campaign, a 13-part column series called Jenny’s Life Change, written by Lehtinen herself. The findings suggest that diverse, conflicting discourses on fatness are indeed present in her texts; of these, I have named anti-“obesity,” fatphobic, size acceptance, and societal discourses. However, in line with scholars such as Michalinos Zembylas, I argue that Lehtinen’s conflicting messaging on fatness is not (only) an expression of her personal opinions but in fact linked to ambivalent fatness discourses circulating in Finnish society and abroad. Further, Samantha Murray has noted that fat activism would do well in welcoming the multivocality often present in (narratives on) fatness, since ambivalence might actually contain potential. One such possibility is the very observation that ambivalence vis-à-vis fatness is not necessarily a sign of being a sell-out or a “fake” fat activist. Instead, it is an indication that at a time when fatness is a stigmatized trait, almost everyone is exposed to conflicting messages about it. Therefore fat activists’ ambivalence in relation to fatness should not be judged but rather seen in this larger context.en
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.relation.ispartofseriesFat Studies
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 4.0
dc.subject.otherSuomi
dc.subject.otherambivalence
dc.subject.otherbody positivity
dc.subject.otherdiscourse analysis
dc.subject.otherfat activism
dc.subject.otherFinland
dc.titleCan ambivalence hold potential for fat activism? An analysis of conflicting discourses on fatness in the Finnish column series Jenny’s Life Change
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:jyu-202306264100
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
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dc.description.reviewstatuspeerReviewed
dc.format.pagerange60-74
dc.relation.issn2160-4851
dc.relation.numberinseries1
dc.relation.volume8
dc.type.versionacceptedVersion
dc.rights.copyright© 2018 Taylor & Francis
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dc.subject.ysokehopositiivisuus
dc.subject.ysodiskurssianalyysi
dc.subject.ysoambivalenssi
dc.subject.ysopositiivisuus
dc.subject.ysovartalo
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jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p38392
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p7829
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p26852
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p12031
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p4008
dc.rights.urlhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.relation.doi10.1080/21604851.2019.1534458
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