Social Justice Responses to the "Obesity Epidemic"
Rethinking Fatness

In the midst of our present "obesity epidemic," fatness is pathologized and fat people are demonized. LeBesco will examine cultural moments in which people actively resist over determined, totalizing constructions of fatness, in favor of a more complicated understanding of the relationship of fatness to health, beauty, and nature. She will discuss the way that fat bodies in the United States are marked as "failed citizens," explore the political implications of fashions for "fat(ter) women," analyze popular culture depictions of fatness as a disability, and explore the use of the Internet in offering alternative narratives through the disembodiment of discourse. She also will evaluate the strategies and tactics that are currently popular in fat activism.

  • Led by: Professor Katie Lebesco, Marymount Manhattan College
  • Date: Friday, April 1, 2005
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
  • Location: CAT conference room (Library 534)
  • Sponsor: Faculty Resource Network at New York University
  • More info: http://www.nyu.edu/frn/events-forums.nyu

Note: Join your colleagues in Library 534 (CAT conference room) to view and discuss this presentation. Alternatively, you can view this presentation on your desktop computer. To do so, you'll need an Internet connection and RealPlayer (a free version of RealPlayer is available at http://www.real.com/).

Tags: social justice, remote
Format: uncategorized
Event ID: 00454


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