Author Spotlight: An Autoethnography of Fitting In: On Spinsterhood, Fatness and Backpacker Tourism

Stanley, Phiona

Abstract

An Autoethnography of Fitting In: On Spinsterhood, Fatness, and Backpacker Tourism is a feminist narrative about the social rules of obedience and acquiescence to the norm – embodiment, heteronormativity, partnering – and about fitting in, or not, with those narratives. Set in the context of transnational work in Qatar, China, and elsewhere, and "road status" as negotiated and performed among long-term backpacker tourists, this book serves as an exemplar of how autoethnography can illuminate socio-cultural normativities and their effects – which are rarely explicit, but which nevertheless have great potential to harm – while problematizing and rethinking the meanings and semantic boundaries of fatness, queerness, and (hetero)normativity.

Citation

Stanley, P. (2022, January). Author Spotlight: An Autoethnography of Fitting In: On Spinsterhood, Fatness and Backpacker Tourism. Presented at 2022 International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative (ISAN), Florida/Online

• Presentation Conference Type: Other
• Conference Name: 2022 International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative (ISAN)
• Start Date: Jan 3, 2022
• End Date: Jan 5, 2022
• Deposit Date: Mar 7, 2024
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/3534675
• Related Public URLs: https://iaani.org/2022isan/