Fat women never disappear overeating and gaining weight as tools of rebellion in Fay Weldon's The fat woman's joke and Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle - by Nayiri Serop Baboudjian
Abstract
This thesis aims to analyze the image of the fat woman in two twentieth- century novels- Weldon's The Fat Woman 's Joke (1967) and Atwood's Lady Oracle (1976). 80th novels portray overeating as a tool of defiance and dieting as a form of conformity. In th
Description
Thesis (M.A.)--Dept. of English, AUB, 2003.;"Advisor: Dr. Christopher Nassar, Associate Professor, English--Member of Committee: Dr. Andrew Long, Assistant Professor, English--Member of Committee: Dr. Roseanne Khalaf, Assistant Professor, English--Member
Works cited : leaves 97-101.
Works cited : leaves 97-101.