Don Kulick: Exceeding the Limits: Fat Porn

A type of pornography that thrives on the Internet is Fat Porn, which features photos of women, many of whom weigh over 200 kg. A striking feature of this genre of pornography is that the women pictured do not have sex. Instead of having sex, these women have food: they eat. So the pornographic act is not the display of a penis or some other object entering a woman's vagina. Instead, the pornographic act is the display of food entering a woman's mouth. How can one think about this genre of pornography in terms of gender, race, sexuality and power? What would Foucault say about these women, who sometimes refer to themselves as BBW (Big Beautiful Women)?

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Don Kulick ist Professor für Anthropologie und Direktor des Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality an der New York University, USA. Er forscht zu den Bereichen linguistischer Anthropologie, Gender und Sexualität. Don Kulick publizierte zu Themen wie sprachlicher Sozialisation, dem Verhältnis von Sprache und Sexualität, Queer Theory und Prostitution. Weiterhin wies sich Don Kulick durch Feldstudien in Papua - Neuguinea, Brasilien, Italien und in Schweden aus. Ausgewählte Veröffentlichungen: The Language and Sexuality Reader (mit Deborah Cameron, Routledge, 2006), Queersverige ('Queer Sweden', Natur och Kultur, 2005), Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession (edited with with Anne Meneley, Tarcher/Penguin 2005), Language and Sexuality (with Deborah Cameron, CUP, 2003) and Travesti: Sex, Gender and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes, Chicago U Press, 1998). Derzeit ist er Professor im Rahmen der Marie-Jahoda-Gastprofessur für Internationale Frauenforschung.

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