Revisioning fat lesbian subjects in contemporary lesbian periodicals.
It is difficult to find a visual representation of any fat individual, let alone a queer woman, that is not denigrating and oppressive in conventional media outlets and contemporary visual culture. But even as the negative imagery of fat individuals has expanded over the past forty years in mainstream distribution channels, fat-positive imagery has come to the fore within many feminist and lesbian publications during this same time frame. This article looks at the strategies of representation taken by three contemporary United States lesbian feminist periodicals in visualizing fat and lesbian women within their pages since the 1980s.
Snider
Stefanie
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Department of Art History, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. ssnider@usc.edu
D005260:Female; D019513:Feminism; D018452:Homosexuality, Female; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity; D050177:Overweight; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D012938:Social Perception; D013240:Stereotyping; D014481:United States; D016387:Women's Health