Maeve Eberhardt
List of John Benjamins publications in which Maeve Eberhardt is involved.
Article
2025 “I am a fat ass but I’m also a bad ass”: Reconciling fat and fabulous on the neoliberal screen Journal of Language and Pop Culture 1:2, pp. 153–176 | Article
In this article, I analyze language on the reality television show My Big Fat Fabulous Life, asking how the show reconciles a positive framing of the fat female body within makeover/intervention media. Using critical discourse analysis, I focus on the presence of external “enforcers”… read more