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  title info:
    title: Low-Fat Love Stories
  name:
    name part: Leavy, Patricia.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Scotti, Victoria.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXII, 158 p. online resource.
  abstract: "Low-Fat Love Stories is a collection of short stories and visual portraits based on interview research with women about a dissatisfying relationship with a romantic partner or relative, or their body image. The stories focus on 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. Once upon a time and happily ever after take on new meaning as the women’s stories reveal the underside of fairytales and toxic popular culture. Written in the first-person with language taken directly from each woman’s interview, the stories are raw, visceral, and inspirational. As a collection, the stories and art set you on an emotional rollercoaster and illustrate the different forms “low-fat love” may take, and the quest for self-worth in the context of popular culture that tells women they are never enough. The authors developed an original method of “textual visual snapshots” for this book. Low-Fat Love Stories can be used in a range of courses in art education, gender/women’s studies, popular culture, psychology, relational communication, sociology and social work; or as an exemplar in research or qualitative methods, narrative inquiry, arts-based research or creative writing courses; or it can be read entirely for pleasure by individuals or in book clubs. “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 dominat…
  table of contents: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Popular Culture -- The Interviews and Method -- Reading this Book -- References -- Leala -- Light My Own Fire -- Addison -- Duality -- Valerie -- The Emotional Contortionist -- Jane -- Pretty -- Tiffany -- Sex Drive -- Sherry -- Drowning -- Sara -- Tug-of-War -- Keisha -- Hush -- Eleanor and Mary -- Mirror Mirror -- Emma -- Toxic Soulmates -- Kayla -- Pieces of Myself -- Rachel -- Irreparable Damage -- Yael -- Potato Chips -- Kate -- Everyone Settles -- Crystal -- Strong and Loveable -- Marni -- Breathe -- Further Engagement -- Appendix A: A Conversation about the Method Used in This Book -- Appendix B: The Interview Guides -- About the Authors.
  note: by Patricia Leavy, Victoria Scotti.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Education, general
  classification: L1-991
  classification: 370
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Social Fictions Series
  identifier: 9789463008181
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-818-1
  record info:
    record creation date: 161130
    record change date: 20161130070409.0
    record identifier: 978-94-6300-818-1