Fucking failures: The future of fat sex
White, F.R. 2016. Fucking failures: The future of fat sex. Sexualities. 19 (8), pp. 962-979. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460716640733
White, F.R. 2016. Fucking failures: The future of fat sex. Sexualities. 19 (8), pp. 962-979. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460716640733
Title | Fucking failures: The future of fat sex |
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Type | Journal article |
Authors | White, F.R. |
Abstract | In the context of the obesity ‘epidemic’ fat people’s sex lives are cast as sterile, sexually dysfunctional or just plain non-existent. This article analyzes medical discourses of obesity and sex in order to argue that fat sex is constructed as a type of failure. Using insights from antisocial queer theory, fat sex is further shown to be queer in its failure to adhere to the specifically heteronormative dictates of what Edelman (2004) calls ‘reproductive futurism’. The analysis finally engages with Halberstam’s (2011) notion of queer failure to demonstrate how deconstructing notions of success and failure might offer fat political projects new ways to imagine the future of fat sex. |
Keywords | Fat studies, heteronormativity, reproductive futurism, queer, queer failure |
Journal | Sexualities |
Journal citation | 19 (8), pp. 962-979 |
ISSN | 1363-4607 |
1461-7382 | |
Year | 2016 |
Publisher | Sage |
Accepted author manuscript | File Access Level Open (open metadata and files) |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460716640733 |
Web address (URL) | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460716640733 |
Publication dates | |
Published online | 22 Jul 2016 |