ABSTRACT

This paper engages with the question of how fat female employees manage weight-related stigma at work. We use poetic inquiry to show the reader how it feels for our participants to be stigmatized based on their size. We interviewed 22 women who self-identify as full-figured, fat, overweight, or obese. The results consist of six poems, five of which were written by us, the researchers. These ‘tri-voiced poems’ (Leavy 2010b) illustrate the spectrum of affective responses and stigma management strategies that our participants talked about, ranging from feeling anxious, super-smart, impeccable, and funny to rebellious and confident. The sixth poem was written by one of our participants and voices her first-person experiences and perspective. Our aim is to do justice in our writing to the emotions that circulated in the interviews and to make a political statement with regards to the stigmatizing practices in organizations related to size and health.

摘要

本文涉及一个问题，即胖女雇员如何在工作中处理与体重有关的污名。我们使用诗意的探究向读者展示感觉让我们的参与者根据他们的规模受到污名。我们采访了22位自我识别为肥胖，肥胖，超重或肥胖的女性。结果包括六首诗，其中五首是我们的研究人员写的。这些“发声诗”（Leavy，2010b）说明了我们的参与者谈论的情感反应和污名化管理策略的范围，从焦虑，超级聪明，无懈可击，有趣到叛逆和自信。第六首诗是由我们的一位参与者写的，表达了她的第一人称经历和观点。我们的目标是在写作中公平对待采访中流传的情绪，并就与规模和健康相关的组织中的污名化行为发表政治声明。