"A Life in a Day"
| Title | "A Life in a Day" |
| Year for Search | 1999 |
| Authors | Bovey, Shelley |
| Secondary Authors | Cole, Charlotte, and Windrath, Helen |
| Secondary Title | The Female Odyssey: Visions for the 21st Century |
| Pagination | 47-53 |
| Date Published | 1999 |
| Publisher | The Women's Press |
| Place Published | London |
| Keywords | Female author, Welsh author |
| Annotation | A eutopia where being fat is the norm and honored. The protagonist is a fat woman living comfortably in a society designed for her remembering what it was like to live when being fat was treated as a fault open to criticism. |
| Info Notes | The Welsh female author is the author of The Forbidden Body: Why Being Fat Is Not a Sin. Rev., updated, and exp. ed. London: Pandora, 1994 in where she published “A Day in the Life of a Fat Woman” (4-8) in which she described what it was like to live in an anti-fat climate. |
| Holding Institutions | MoU-C, PSt |
| Author Note | The Welsh female author is the author of The Forbidden Body: Why Being Fat Is Not a Sin. Rev., updated, and exp. ed. London: Pandora, 1994 where she published “A Day in the Life of a Fat Woman” (4-8) in which she described what it was like to live in an anti-fat climate. |
| Full Text | 1999 Bovey, Shelley. “A Life in a Day.” The Female Odyssey: Visions for the 21st Century. Ed. Charlotte Cole and Helen Windrath (London: The Women’s Press, 1999), 47-53. MoU-C, PSt A eutopia where being fat is the norm and honored. The protagonist is a fat woman living comfortably in a society designed for her remembering what it was like to live when being fat was treated as a fault open to criticism. The Welsh female author is the author of The Forbidden Body: Why Being Fat Is Not a Sin. Rev., updated, and exp. ed. London: Pandora, 1994 where she published “A Day in the Life of a Fat Woman” (4-8) in which she described what it was like to live in an anti-fat climate. |
