The fat female body is a unique construction in American culture that has been understood in various ways during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Analyzing post-WWII stage and screen performances, Mobley argues that the fat actress’s body signals myriad cultural assumptions and suggests new ways of reading the body in performance.
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Mobley, J. S. (2014). Female bodies on the american stage: Enter fat actress. Female Bodies on the American Stage: Enter Fat Actress (pp. 1–239). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137428943
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