'I just think it's dirty and lazy': Fat surveillance and erotic capital

Winch, Alison. 2016. 'I just think it's dirty and lazy': Fat surveillance and erotic capital. Sexualities, 19(8), pp. 898-913. ISSN 1363-4607 [Article]

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Abstract or Description

Contextualized within the UK mediascape, this article discusses how fat signifies the classed failures of neoliberalism. Because class aspiration, entrepreneurialism and the myth of the competitive individual are pivotal to the political economy of neoliberalism, fat is increasingly and vehemently vilified as abject across media platforms. Fat-surveillance media, which are marketed specifically to women by their visuals, gendered community, language and structures of feeling, participate in a ‘gynaeopticon’ where the controlling gaze is female, and the many women regulate the many women. Rather than being a top-down form of governance and discipline such as in the panopticon, control is affectively devolved among systems or networks of the policing gaze. As well as monitoring women along the lines of class, I argue that these media circumscribe the de-individualizing possibilities and passions of the libido.

Item Type:

Article

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460716640729

Keywords:

postfeminism, neoliberalism, popular culture, digital neworks, body image, affect

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Media, Communications and Cultural Studies

Dates:

DateEvent
August 2016Published

Item ID:

32184

Date Deposited:

23 Sep 2022 16:05

Last Modified:

24 Sep 2022 09:34

Peer Reviewed:

Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/32184

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