Fat, Fit, and Fem : Exploring Performative Femininity for Fat Female Librarians

Titel: Fat, Fit, and Fem: Exploring Performative Femininity for Fat Female Librarians
verantwortlich: Ali Versluis; Melanie Cassidy; Carli Agostino
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Medientyp: Preprint
Datenquelle: LISSA
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Zusammenfassung: This chapter examines the nature of performative femininity within the context of library service roles, with a particular emphasis on fat women. It addresses the ways fat female bodies are desexualized or are viewed as agender in order to analyze the ways in which this influences fat women in library service roles, and the ways in which fat women are obliged to perform femininity to a greater degree than those with normative bodies. Our sites of analysis look at the expectations around fat women in instructional roles, committee membership, and public service interactions. It has been published in "Deconstructing Service in Libraries: Intersections of Identities and Expectations" (Library Juice Press, 2020).
Sprache: Englisch
DOI: 10.31229/OSF.IO/Z35FN