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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Fat Dramaturgies
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Front Matter
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Fat Subjectivities
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Front Matter
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Reclaiming Fat
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
"Female Bodies on the American Stage pierces the heart of representational politics by parsing how body size influences reception. Mobley incisively analyzes the history of social judgments against larger than sylph-like women, and traces how size prohibitions play out in theatre, film, and television. Considering gender alongside race and ethnicity, Mobley elegantly unpacks the pernicious, ongoing policing of women's bodies, and persuasively illustrates the complicity of cultural production in enforcing impossible, demeaning standards for normative beauty." - Jill Dolan, Professor of English, Director of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Princeton University, US
"Desired and deified in earlier epochs for their curvaceous and voluptuous figures, statuesque female performers have become, over the course of the twentieth century, reviled and vilified, reduced to stock characters, and a panoply of gross stereotypes. Interrogating the rise of fat prejudice, Mobley reads the bodies of 'broad broads' as embodied cultural texts within and against a backdrop of material abundance and capitalist excess, American self-determination, and Puritan morality. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the cultural, political, and aesthetic dimensions of corpulence." - Sara Warner, Associate Professor, Theatre, Cornell University, USA
"[Mobley's] analyses are sharp and insightful and her use of canonical cultural and fat studies theorists . . . is capable and convincing. More than that, the book is interesting and fun. Mobley argues the importance of textual analyses of popular cultural texts . . . This book amply contributes to feminist cultural and fat studies conversations about the implications and effects of mediated representations of fat, feminine bodies and performances." - Fat Studies
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Female Bodies on the American Stage
Book Subtitle: Enter Fat Actress
Authors: Jennifer-Scott Mobley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137428943
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Theatre & Performance Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-43066-3Published: 04 September 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-49211-4Published: 18 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-42894-3Published: 04 September 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 239
Topics: Sociology of the Body, Gender Studies, Theatre History, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Arts, Theatre and Performance Studies