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Defying Gravity

Are Glee’s Fat-Bottomed Girls Helping Us Rise above Fat Stereotypes?

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Kermit famously crooned about the challenges of being green, but the tune would have worked even better had it been sung by a dejected Miss Piggy, lamenting, “It’s not easy being fat.” Except that in terms of how problematic it is to be overweight in Hollywood, the porcine puppet probably had a pretty painless experience compared to what heavy women of the flesh and blood variety must endure.

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  1. Natalia Cherjovsky
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  1. Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, USA

    Brian C. Johnson

  2. Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA

    Daniel K. Faill

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Cherjovsky, N. (2015). Defying Gravity. In: Johnson, B.C., Faill, D.K. (eds) Glee and New Directions for Social Change. Youth, Media, & Culture Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-905-0_15

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