Sunday, May 31, 2015

The Feminist-Industrial Complex: Fat Lesbians vs. the ‘Heteronormative Gaze’

At the Other McCain:
Does the “fat acceptance” movement “destabilize the heteronormative gaze”? Can women overcome “gender inequality” by a “radical rejection of beauty as feminine aspiration”? Those possibilities are suggested by two Canadian sociologists in an article, included in a leading Women’s Studies textbook, that compared Dove’s “Real Beauty” advertising campaign to a protest by lesbian activists in Toronto.



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