Fettets Fenomenologi: en fenomenologisk studie om levda erfarenheter av övervikt
(2014) GNVM03 20131Department of Gender Studies
- Abstract
- The aim of the study was to study people with the experience of being overweight from a phenomenological perspective. The two main focuses where: How does the informants experience their body in their everyday life regarding the body, food and eating, working out, health and resistance from a phenomenological perspective? How do the informants experience their body in interaction to others and themselves? My own experience of being overweight led me to a desire to wanting to know more about others with these experiences combined with a relentless anger about how a body is supposed to be. The theoretical framework is foremost inspired by phenomenology and the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty regarding embodiment and being in the... (More)
- The aim of the study was to study people with the experience of being overweight from a phenomenological perspective. The two main focuses where: How does the informants experience their body in their everyday life regarding the body, food and eating, working out, health and resistance from a phenomenological perspective? How do the informants experience their body in interaction to others and themselves? My own experience of being overweight led me to a desire to wanting to know more about others with these experiences combined with a relentless anger about how a body is supposed to be. The theoretical framework is foremost inspired by phenomenology and the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty regarding embodiment and being in the world. Also, Iris Marion Young about cultural dominance, Simone de Beauvoir theories about the body as a situation and Bill Hughes theories about Jean Paul Sartre´s, the gaze amongst others.
I have conducted nine semi structured deep interviews from the themes health, training, the experience of eating and resistance with eight women and one man. During the interviews some of the informants expressed a relief that I was not thin or a man.
One of the most prominent experiences of being overweight is that the informants never got to forget that they didn’t embody the “right” body. Their lived experience was ambivalent. Fat people are mostly described as lazy, unhealthy, unfit, sick, and ugly and so on. In almost whatever they do in their life they are fighting with these images, sometimes they are articulated by other or from themselves. The experience of being looked at was something most of them thought as an unpleasant experience. They are constantly visible, and at the same time invisible. (Less)
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- author
- Reijs, Josephine LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- GNVM03 20131
- year
- 2014
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- kropp, body, overweight, phenomenology, övervikt, knowledge, experience, erfarenhet, kunskap, fenomenologi
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 4239354
- date added to LUP
- 2014-02-07 14:17:40
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- 2014-02-07 14:17:40
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abstract = {{The aim of the study was to study people with the experience of being overweight from a phenomenological perspective. The two main focuses where: How does the informants experience their body in their everyday life regarding the body, food and eating, working out, health and resistance from a phenomenological perspective? How do the informants experience their body in interaction to others and themselves? My own experience of being overweight led me to a desire to wanting to know more about others with these experiences combined with a relentless anger about how a body is supposed to be. The theoretical framework is foremost inspired by phenomenology and the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty regarding embodiment and being in the world. Also, Iris Marion Young about cultural dominance, Simone de Beauvoir theories about the body as a situation and Bill Hughes theories about Jean Paul Sartre´s, the gaze amongst others.
I have conducted nine semi structured deep interviews from the themes health, training, the experience of eating and resistance with eight women and one man. During the interviews some of the informants expressed a relief that I was not thin or a man.
One of the most prominent experiences of being overweight is that the informants never got to forget that they didn’t embody the “right” body. Their lived experience was ambivalent. Fat people are mostly described as lazy, unhealthy, unfit, sick, and ugly and so on. In almost whatever they do in their life they are fighting with these images, sometimes they are articulated by other or from themselves. The experience of being looked at was something most of them thought as an unpleasant experience. They are constantly visible, and at the same time invisible.}},
author = {{Reijs, Josephine}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Fettets Fenomenologi: en fenomenologisk studie om levda erfarenheter av övervikt}},
year = {{2014}},
}