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- Low-Fat Love Stories is the first book to combine short stories and visual portraits based on interview research with women about their dissatisfying relationships and body image issues
- The authors developed an original method of “textual visual snapshots” to communicate women's stories about settling in relationships, the gap between fantasies and realities, relationship patterns, divorce, abuse, childhood pain, spirituality, feeling like a fraud, growing older, and daily struggles looking in the mirror
- Low-Fat Love Stories explores the effect of living in the context of a commercial culture that tells women they are not enough and simultaneously challenges the portrayals of women that dominate popular culture, offering alternative stories and images grounded in women’s real experiences
Part of the book series: Social Fictions Series (SFS)
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About this book
“An important addition to the fields of gender and media studies that is certain to stimulate self-reflection and lively discussion.” – Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D., author, feminist activist, and creator of the Killing Us Softly: Advertising’s Image of Women film series
“Breathtaking! The images are glorious – emotionally compelling – those eyes, the pain, the fragility; the stories are captivating.” – Laurel Richardson, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, The Ohio State University and Cooley Book Award winner
“A powerful book that challenges the representations of women that dominate popular culture, offering alternative narratives and images grounded in women’s real experiences.” – Sut Jhally, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Founder & Executive Director, Media Education Foundation
“A wonderful model of the infinite possibilities for art as research. An inspirational affirmation of life for all people.” – Shaun McNiff, University Professor, Lesley University and author of Art as Research, Art Heals, and Imagination in Action
Patricia Leavy, Ph.D., is an award-winning independent sociologist and author.
Victoria Scotti, Ph.D., is an art therapist and artist."
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Low-Fat Love Stories
Authors: Patricia Leavy, Victoria Scotti
Series Title: Social Fictions Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-818-1
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-818-1Published: 25 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 158
Topics: Education, general