The Hidden Lives of Big Beautiful Women

By Crystal Kotow

This book is a deep dive into the largely unexplored space of BBW "bashes"--multi-day gatherings of fat women and their admirers. Using a range of feminist theories of embodiment and affect, the project is guided by autoethnography and in-depth interviews with twelve participants. Participant experiences are first analyzed with a key focus on experiences that cause grief and disenfranchisement; subsequently, the book looks at experiences that may be radical or revelatory. The book does not seek to either villainize or valorize BBW spaces but instead sheds a bright light on the experience of this cultural subspace and all it may offer to analyses of fat life.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031544528
• ISBN13: 9783031544521
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"