An Autoethnography of Fitting in: On Spinsterhood, Fatness, and Backpacker Tourism

ISBN-13: 9781032070988 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 238 str.

Phiona Stanley

Opis

An Autoethnography of Fitting In: On Spinsterhood, Fatness, and Backpacker Tourism is a feminist narrative about the social rules of obedience and acquiescence to the norm – fatness, heteronormativity, partnering – and about fitting in, or not, with those narratives.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Appearances 3. Fatness 4. Fitting In 5. Privilege 6. Normativity 7. (Not Quite) Fitting In 8. Saving Face 9. Spinsterhood 10. In/ter/dependence 11. Chasing Approval Can Save Your Life 12. Theorizing Story/Storying Theory

O autorze

Phiona Stanley is Associate Professor of Intercultural Communications at the Business School, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland. Her research interests include intercultural competence, transnational identities, decolonizing scholarship, language learning, gender, embodiment, and various aspects of tourism.