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In light of my critique of medicine, and fat politics, and my close engagement with Merleau-Ponty here, the question remains: what now? If fat politics is guilty of reproducing the very ‘intellectualist’ approaches of medicine that it wants to reject, then what kind of ‘fat’ body politics may in fact offer women positioned as ‘fat’ a more productive and enabling means of being-in-the-world?
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© 2008 Samantha Murray
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Murray, S. (2008). An Afterword: ‘Fat’ Bodily Being?. In: The ‘Fat’ Female Body. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230584419_11
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