Author: Kristin Rodier, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Athabasca University - Personal Website, Google Scholar

Abstracts:
- »In the final analysis of mainstream film and televisual texts, Kristin Rodier surveys a number of popular television comedies, dramas, and films over the years to demonstrate how stereotypes around fat women perpetuate myths about fat female sexuality. Spanning a range of popular texts, from The Office and Curb Your Enthusiasm to This is Us, Rodier’s chapter compellingly demonstrates the “symbolic annihilation” of sexual violence against fat women and the long-standing use of tropes that both desexualize and hypersexualize fat women, while erasing their sexual subjectivity and agency.« (Source: Stephanie Patrick and Mythili Rajiva. »Introduction.« The Forgotten Victims of Sexual Violence in Film, Television and New Media: Turning to the Margins. Edited by Stephanie Patrick et al. Cham 2022: 17)

- »While fat studies has substantial writing on sexuality, romance, and dating, there remains little written on how sexual violence against fat women is demonstrated through cultural forms such as television. Fat women’s sexual agency is negatively stereotyped at the same time as sexual violence done to them is symbolically annihilated. This chapter discerns a representations system, through a range of television and movie stereotypes, that contributes to sexual violence against fat women by erasing fat sexuality and foreclosing possibilities for fat women’s sexual agency. The author draws on a broad range of television and some movies to isolate themes that develop the centrality of fatphobic stereotypes to fat women’s experiences of sexual violence and abuse. The four dominant themes are (1) fat women are sluts or “easy lays,” (2) they are not sexual (desexualized), (3) if they get sexual attention it is a “favor” to them, and (4) fat women are big enough to “take care of themselves.”« (Source: SpringerLink)

Contents:

	6.1 Introduction (p. 101)
	6.2 Fat Women, Sexual Use, and Intimate Partner Abuse (p. 103)
	6.3 Section 1: “Fat Sluts” (p. 104)
	6.4 Section 2: Desexualization (Who Would Fuck That?) (p. 107)
	6.5 Section 3: Lucky I Even Fucked You/You Think You Can Do Better? (p. 112)
	6.6 Section 4: I Think She Can “Take Care of Herself” (p. 114)
	6.7 Conclusion (p. 117)
	References (p. 118)

Wikipedia: History of the Americas: History of the United States | Television: American television series / Bridesmaids, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Homeland, Louie, The Office, The Sopranos, This Is Us | Sex and the law: Sexual violence