Against “Good Taste”: Class, Corpulence and the Subversive Pleasures of “Unfit” Femininities

The forms of oppression against women are multiple and interconnected, my intention for this chapter is to contribute new knowledge to the field of fat studies by exploring the intersections of fat and class. Much in the vein of feminist fat activists’ project of reclaiming the word fat, as Marilyn Wann states “as a preferred political identity” (2009, p. xii), the wish here is that by appropriating some of the negative descriptions launched at the working-class fat body, their power to shame will be subverted.