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Professor LeBesco considers why notions of fluidity, frequently applied to gender and sexuality, are not applied to the bodily state of fatness. In her talk she makes the case for rehabilitating the concept of fluidity as it pertains to fatness. LeBesco is the author of Revolting Bodies? The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity (University of Massachusets Press, 2003). She is also co-editor of three books, Edible Ideologies: Representing Food and Meaning (2008); The Drag King Anthology (2003); and Bodies Out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression (2001

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