The dreaded body
Disgust and the Production of "Appropriate" Femininity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3628255 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Fahs (0000-0001-6843-8066, Arizona State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 184-196 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Gender Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0958-9236 • E-ISSN: 1465-3869 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09589236.2015.1095081 |
| OpenAlex | W2285503876 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 73 |
While some literature has explored women’s feelings about social identities like fatness, race, disability, queerness, and aging, little research has examined, from an intersectional perspective, how women construct a dreaded or viscerally disgusting body and how this produces “appropriate” femininity. This paper utilized thematic analysis of qualitative data from a community sample of 20 US women (mean age = 34, SD = 13.35) to illuminate how women imagined a body they dreaded. Responses indicated that defective femininity, having “freak” body parts, fear of excessiveness, loathing a particular person’s body, and language of smelliness and disgust all appeared, weaving together women’s fears about fatness, dark skin, and becoming old or disabled. Implications incorporating visceral disgust to examinations of body image, and the intersectional foundations of women’s dreaded selves, were discussed. Further, imagining “Other” bodies may produce especially vivid narratives around social biases and internalized oppression
Art · Disgust · Feeling · Femininity · Masculinity · Narrative · Oppression · Politics · Sociology · Eating Disorders and Behaviors · Empathy and Medical Education · Gender Studies · Obesity and Health Practices · Psychology · Social Psychology
Looking good and feeling better. Healthism in weight loss apps
Ageism, rape myths, and disgust
Quelle place pour les corps féminins sexués dans les espaces publics ? Réflexions sur la notion de féminité et l’appropriation des espaces publics
The aesthetic labour of polycystic ovarian syndrome
Eroticizing failure
When I lose the weight, we’ll go on a date’ – fatness, singleness and liminality in Fat Chance
Breaking gendered boundaries? Exploring constructions of counter-normative body hair practices in Āotearoa/New Zealand using story completion
Keeping abreast of gendering practices in health and physical education and physical culture
What do glitter, pointe shoes, & plastic drumsticks have in common? Using femme theory to consider the reclamation of disciplinary beauty/body practices
Mapping the abject
Exploring stigma of “extreme” weight gain
Breastfeeding, ‘tainted’ love, and femmephobia
Getting in and going’
Ugly filters, pretty faces
Basically, it’s sorcery for your vagina’
De l’hostilité à la sécurité
Gender, loss, and the erosion of bodily capital
Mindreading, emotion-regulation, and oppression
Men and Women
I don't eat that much
Diverse but shallow, unrealistic but influential
Slick and smooth
Fatphobia in sacrificial moral decision-making dilemmas
Down on Their Luck
Unbearable Weight
Individual differences in sensitivity to disgust
Disgust as Embodied Moral Judgment
With a Clean Conscience
"You're only as old as you feel"
Black Beauty
Successful Aging
Discipline and Punish
Discipline and Punish
The woman in the body
Black Feminist Thought
Preferential Education Policies for the Handicapped
Do Real Women Have Curves?” Paradoxical Body Images among Latinas in New York City
Re-imagining the (Dis)Abled Body
The Place of Disgust
Fat Studies
Hypersexualization and the Dark Body
Fat Ethics’ – The Obesity Discourse and Body Politics
Regulating The Abject
Skin pedagogies and abject bodies
Critical Respect
Poverty, Crime Seriousness, and the “Politics of Disgust”
Locating Aesthetics
Wounded/monstrous/abject
Living fat in a thin-centric world
The Stigma of Women's Weight
Tilting the Ethical Lens
Women and Body Hair
Attitudes Toward Women's Body Hair
Leaks, Lumps, and Lines
A Qualitative Investigation of Women's and Men's Body Image Concerns and Their Attitudes Toward Aging
Breasts Are for Men
Becoming “the fat girl”
Self-Objectification and That “Not So Fresh Feeling”
Thinspiration” vs. “fear of fat”. Using prototypes to predict frequent weight-loss dieting in females
Skin Color and the Perception of Attractiveness among African Americans
The motivation to diet in young women
Purity and Danger
Internalized Racism
Using thematic analysis in psychology
Down on their luck
Reconsidering otherness
Affect, culture, and morality, or is it wrong to eat your dog
Cultural Representation of Disabled People
A beautiful show of strength
I am not the kind of woman who complains of everything
Imagining the Other in Cosmetic Surgery
Disgusted Subjects
An invitation to use craigslist ads to recruit respondents from stigmatized groups for qualitative interviews
Dreaded 'Otherness
Trading On Heterosexuality
The Beautiful and the Abject
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,56 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |