The Embodiment of Disobedience: Fat Black Women's Unruly Political Bodies - Paperback

by Andrea Elizabeth Shaw (Author)

The Embodiment of Disobedience explores the ways in which the African Diaspora has rejected the West's efforts to impose imperatives of slenderness and mass market fat-anxiety.

Author Biography

Andrea Elizabeth Shaw is Assistant Director of the Division of Humanities and Assistant Professor of English at Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.