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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"body acceptance"”.
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Mind over Matter: Exploring the Power of a Positive Body Image
This dissertation examines positive body image and its relationship with appearance-related commentary, body weight, and impression formation among young adult women. It explores how women’s unique individual experiences are constructed within social interactions. The present dissertation examined …
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Fat activism and collective accountability: from virtual community to embodied coalition
<p>The paper examines the “fat body” in the United States, and the fat acceptance grassroots community and fat activist resistance, as they exist on the social media site Tumblr. Blending feminist ethnographic fieldwork with post-structuralist and intersectional theoretical analysis, I interrogate …