'The super-fats, the middlies and the barely-fats'
This article investigates the practices of naming and describing bodies in plus-size women’s fashion blogs. Building on Jeffries’ (2007) work on the construction of bodies and bodily processes in women’s magazines, I explore how bloggers use language to construct their identities through references...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Danish |
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Royal Swedish Academy of Swedish Folk Culture
2023-06-01
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| Series: | Nordisk Tidskrift för Socioonomastik |
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| Online Access: | https://publicera.kb.se/noso/article/view/14410 |
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| Summary: | This article investigates the practices of naming and describing bodies in plus-size women’s fashion blogs. Building on Jeffries’ (2007) work on the construction of bodies and bodily processes in women’s magazines, I explore how bloggers use language to construct their identities through references to bodily characteristics. I investigate terms the bloggers use to describe the plus-size body, as well as the connotative features of these terms. In addition, I analyse the use of three terms that were used to describe bodies that are not plus-size: thin, slim, and skinny. The results demonstrate that, while the bloggers build counter-discourse to the mainstream media discourses that construct fatness as a negative characteristic, they also maintain particular hegemonic discourses on beauty, sexuality and gender.
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| ISSN: | 2004-0296 2004-0881 |