Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Low-Fat Love

  • Book
  • © 2011

Overview

Editors:
  1. Patricia Leavy

    1. Stonehill College, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Written by experts, Gives a modern approach, Comprehensive in Scope

Part of the book series: Social Fictions Series (SFS, volume 1)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 49.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Part One

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Chapter 1

      • Patricia Leavy
      Pages 3-19

    3. Chapter 2

      • Patricia Leavy
      Pages 21-27

    4. Chapter 3

      • Patricia Leavy
      Pages 29-38

    5. Chapter 4

      • Patricia Leavy
      Pages 39-53

    6. Chapter 5

      • Patricia Leavy
      Pages 55-76

  3. Part Two

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Chapter 6

      • Patricia Leavy
      Pages 79-90

    3. Chapter 7

      • Patricia Leavy
      Pages 91-94

    4. Chapter 8

      • Patricia Leavy
      Pages 95-98

    5. Chapter 9

      • Patricia Leavy
      Pages 99-103

    6. Chapter 10

      • Patricia Leavy
      Pages 105-108

    7. Chapter 11

      • Patricia Leavy
      Pages 109-126

    8. Chapter 12

      • Patricia Leavy
      Pages 127-136

    9. Chapter 13

      • Patricia Leavy
      Pages 137-142

  4. Part Three

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Chapter 14

      • Patricia Leavy
      Pages 145-148

    3. Chapter 15

      • Patricia Leavy
      Pages 149-151

    4. Chapter 16

      • Patricia Leavy
      Pages 153-167
Back to top

About this book

Low-Fat Love unfolds over three seasons as Prilly Greene and Janice Goldwyn, adversarial editors at a New York press, experience personal change relating to the men (and absence of women) in their lives. Ultimately, each woman is pushed to confront her own image of herself, exploring her insecurities, the stagnation in her life and her reasons for having settled for low-fat love. Along with Prilly and Janice, a cast of offbeat characters’ stories are interwoven throughout the book. Low-Fat Love is underscored with a commentary about female identity-building and self-acceptance and how, too often, women become trapped in limited visions of themselves. Women’s media is used as a signpost throughout the book in order to make visible the context in which women come to think of themselves as well as the men and women in their lives. In this respect Low-Fat Love offers a critical commentary about popular culture and the social construction of femininity. Grounded in a decade of interview research with young women and written in a fun, chick-lit voice, the novel can be read for pleasure or used as supplemental reading in a variety of social science or women’s/gender studies courses as well as courses in popular culture, qualitative research or arts-based research.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Stonehill College, USA

    Patricia Leavy

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Societies and partnerships

Back to top

Search

Navigation