Kathleen Lebesco
Biographic Data
| ID | 191230 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen Lebesco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Lebesco |
| SIGNATURE | LEBESCO K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Marymount Manhattan College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3418-3170 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Culinary Capital
TV cookery shows hosted by celebrity chefs. Meal prep kitchens. Online grocers and restaurant review sites. Competitive eating contests, carnivals and fairs, and junk food websites and blogs. What do all of them have in common? According to authors Kathleen LeBesco and Peter Naccarato, they each serve as productive sites for understanding the role of culinary capital in shaping individual and group identities in contemporary culture. Beyond provi…
Neoliberalism, public health, and the moral perils of fatness
This article examines attempts by the state – via body mass index (BMI) bills, obesity report cards, curtailment of custody, and more – to enlist individual citizens in the war on obesity as they rehearse a reductive collapse between weight and health that may actually undermine human wellness. The article considers such efforts to responsibilize the individual citizen in light of recent arguments by concerned scholars that the collective citizen…
Using Zines to Foster Critical Communication
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Introduction
Only through means of performance—however broadly one wishes to define it—can liberating pedagogies be developed that will enable students to construct meanings that are lived in the body, felt in
Disability, Gender and Difference on The Sopranos
This essay examines the treatment of difference from bodily norms for women on The Sopranos. The author reviews key issues in the representation of people with disabilities, provides an overview of gender and disability issues on the program, and focuses in case-study fashion on how the framing of two female Sopranos characters—one fat woman and one amputee—is consistent with, yet deviates from, conventional strategies for representing bodily dif…
Reality TV
Introduction
Situating fat suits
(2005). Situating fat suits: Blackface, drag, and the politics of performance. Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 231-242
Bodies Out of Bounds
Situating fat suits
(2005). Situating fat suits: Blackface, drag, and the politics of performance. Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 231-242
Introduction
Only through means of performance—however broadly one wishes to define it—can liberating pedagogies be developed that will enable students to construct meanings that are lived in the body, felt in
Bodies Out of Bounds
Reality TV
Introduction
Situating fat suits
(2005). Situating fat suits: Blackface, drag, and the politics of performance. Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 231-242
Introduction
Only through means of performance—however broadly one wishes to define it—can liberating pedagogies be developed that will enable students to construct meanings that are lived in the body, felt in
Disability, Gender and Difference on The Sopranos
This essay examines the treatment of difference from bodily norms for women on The Sopranos. The author reviews key issues in the representation of people with disabilities, provides an overview of gender and disability issues on the program, and focuses in case-study fashion on how the framing of two female Sopranos characters—one fat woman and one amputee—is consistent with, yet deviates from, conventional strategies for representing bodily dif…
Using Zines to Foster Critical Communication
Preview this article: Using Zines to Foster Critical Communication, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/eme/8/1/s5-1.gif
Neoliberalism, public health, and the moral perils of fatness
This article examines attempts by the state – via body mass index (BMI) bills, obesity report cards, curtailment of custody, and more – to enlist individual citizens in the war on obesity as they rehearse a reductive collapse between weight and health that may actually undermine human wellness. The article considers such efforts to responsibilize the individual citizen in light of recent arguments by concerned scholars that the collective citizen…
Culinary Capital
TV cookery shows hosted by celebrity chefs. Meal prep kitchens. Online grocers and restaurant review sites. Competitive eating contests, carnivals and fairs, and junk food websites and blogs. What do all of them have in common? According to authors Kathleen LeBesco and Peter Naccarato, they each serve as productive sites for understanding the role of culinary capital in shaping individual and group identities in contemporary culture. Beyond provi…
Sociology (7 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)