| Younggiftedandfat: An Autoethnography of Size, Sexuality, and Privilege Contributor(s): Luckett, Sharrell D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138998826 ISBN-13: 9781138998827 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Reference | Research - Social Science | Research - Biography & Autobiography |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2017031432 |
| Series: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives |
| Physical Information: 172 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: YoungGiftedandFat is a critical autoethnography of performing thin- on the stage and in life. Sharrell D. Luckett's story of weight loss and gain and playing the (beautiful, desirable, thin) leading lady showcases an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to issues of weight and self-esteem, performance, race, and gender. Sharrell structures her project with creative text, interviews, testimony, journal entries, dialogues, monologues, and deep theorizing through and about the abundance of flesh. She explores the politics of Black culture, and particularly the intersections of her lived and embodied experiences. Her body and body transformation becomes a critical praxis to evidence fat as a feminist issue, fat as a Black-girl-woman issue, and fat as an ideological construct that is as much on the brain as it is on the body. YoungGiftedandFat is useful to any area of research or course offering taking up questions of size politics at the intersections of race and sexuality. |