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I would like to begin my discussion here with an account of a personal humiliation: an intense experience of my own ‘fat’ body’s ‘look-at-edness’. Just over a year ago, I attended a seminar in a series of papers on sexuality. In this particular session, the paper delivered explored issues relating to masculinity. A colleague had conducted interviews with young male cadets training at the Australian Defence Force Academy, where a number of young men talked openly about their sexual experiences and practices. One of the young cadets relayed the story of an apparently common sexual activity known as the ‘Rodeo’.
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© 2008 Samantha Murray
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Murray, S. (2008). Fattening Up Foucault: A ‘Fat’ Counter-Aesthetic?. In: The ‘Fat’ Female Body. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230584419_7
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