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The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity. In today’s world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women’s movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she…
Charlotte Cooper, a fat activist with more than 30 years experience, lifts the lid on a previously unexplored social movement and offers a fresh perspective on one of the major problems of our times. In her expansive, intelligent grassroots study she: – Reveals details of fat activist methods and approaches – Features extensive accounts of…
Mainstream health science has let you down. Weight loss is not the key to health, diet and exercise are not effective weight-loss strategies and fatness is not a death sentence. Youโve heard it before: thereโs a global health crisis, and, unless we make some changes, weโre in trouble. That much is trueยbut the epidemic is…
Do you use food to comfort yourself during stressful times? The Intuitive Eating Workbook offers a comprehensive, evidence-based program to help you develop a healthy relationship with food, pay attention to cues of hunger and satisfaction, and cultivate a profound connection with your mind and body. Have you tried fad diet after fad diet, only…
โPerfect, kind, hilarious and persuasiveโ Lena Dunham โI am a fat person and I love my body. I feel lucky to be able to say that โ it has taken a lot of work and a lot of time. I want to tell you what I have learned and how I got here.โ In Happy…
Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHonorable Mention, 2020 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHow the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly…
A 10-step approach to ditch diet culture, heal your relationship with food, and learn to love your body from clinical psychologist Alexis Conason. Diets don’t work–and it’s not your fault. As a culture, we’re told (and tell ourselves) that if we just lost the weight–tried a little harder, had a little more willpower, or deprived…
Most women have spent time dieting and trying to change themselves in order to fit into a moldโand a bodyโthat is deemed socially acceptable. Yet it is dieting that is the problem: it disconnects us from our bodies wisdom and holds us back from living life to the fullest. The more time we spend trying…
“Bacon has found their voice in this book, and it’s a voice we all need to hear right now”โLibrary Journal “Belonging has been a formative struggle for me. Like most people with marginalized identities, my experience has taught me that it’s hard to be yourself and feel like you belong in a culture that is…
What happens when your body doesn’t look how it’s supposed to look, or feel how it’s supposed to feel, or do what it’s supposed to do? Who or what defines the ideals behind these expectations? How can we challenge them and live more peacefully in our bodies? Shameful Bodies: Religion and the Culture of Physical…
In recent years, body studies has expanded rapidly, becoming an increasingly popular field of study within anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies. This groundbreaking textbook takes the topics and theories from these disciplines, and combines them into one single, easily accessible text for students. Body Studies is a comprehensive textbook on the social and cultural uses…
Viewed as both unhealthy and unattractive, fat people are widely represented in popular culture and in interpersonal interactions as revoltingโas agents of abhorrence and disgust. Yet if we think about “revolting” in a different way, Kathleen LeBesco argues, we can recognize fatness as not simply an aesthetic state or a medical condition, but a political…
In the past decade, obesity has emerged as a major public health concern in the United States ย and abroad. At the federal, state, and local level, policy makers have begun drafting a range of policies to fight a war against fat, including body-mass index (BMI) report cards, โsnack taxes,โ and laws to control how fast…
From the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people that will move us toward creating an agenda for fat justice. Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Donโt Talk About When We Talk About Fat, Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have…
Make peace with food. Free yourself from chronic dieting forever. Rediscover the pleasures of eating. The go-to resourceโโnow fully revised and updatedโโfor building a healthy body image and making peace with food, once and for all. When it was first published, Intuitive Eating was revolutionary in its anti-dieting approach. The authors, both prominent health professionals…
โThe F*ck It Diet is not only hilarious, it is scientifically and medically sound. A must read for any chronic dieter.โ โChristiane Northrup, MD, New York Times bestselling author of ย Womenโs Bodies, Womenโs Wisdom From comedian and ex-diet junkie Caroline Dooner, an inspirational guide that will help you stop dieting, reboot your relationship with food,…
Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to accept and enjoy the way you look instead of constantly worrying about and criticizing your appearance? What if instead of focusing on your flaws, you felt confident with the body you have right now? If you don’t like what you see when you look in…
Details: Over the last two decades, fatness has become the focus of ubiquitous negative rhetoric, in the USA and beyond, presented under the cover of the medicalized ”war against the obesity epidemic”. In Fat on Film, Barbara Plotz provides a critical analysis of the cinematic representation of fatness during this timeframe, specifically in contemporary Hollywood…
Over the past twenty-five years, our quest for thinness has morphed into a relentless obsession with weight and body image. In our culture, “fat” has become a four-letter word. Or, as Lance Armstrong said to the wife of a former teammate, “I called you crazy. I called you a bitch. But I never called you…
Fat isnโt the problem. Dieting is the problem. A society that rejects anyone whose body shape or size doesnโt match an impossible ideal is the problem. A medical establishment that equates ยthinโ with ยhealthyโ is the problem. The solution? Health at Every Size. Tune in to your bodyโs expert guidance. Find the joy in movement….
Taking Up Space is a sociological memoir about being fat and the physical, emotional and economic costs of trying to pass for thin in a culture that stigmatizes fat people. Making her own life a case study, medical sociologist Pattie Thomas, Ph.D., with the help of her co-author and husband Carl Wilkerson, M.B.A., outlines how…
A provocative exposรฉ of America’s self-defeating war on obesity challenges conventional wisdom regarding the cultural, medical, and political meaning of weight, arguing against the myth that falsely equates thinness with health and explaining why dieting is bad for the health, how the media misinform the public, and the link between racial and body-based prejudice. Originally…
Details: Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Women’s Studies. With a foreword by Vivian Mayer. SHADOW ON A TIGHTROPE is a collection of articles, personal stories, and poems by fat women, about their lives and the fat- hating society in which they live. Topics include: exposing the myths concerning fat; what it’s like to grow up fat; a…
The actress, comedian, and podcaster extraordinaire’s guide to being a #brave, bikini-wearing badass. If youโve ever seen a fat person post a bikini shot on social media, you already know that they are #verybrave, because apparently existing in a fat body in public is #brave. I, Nicole Byer, wrote this book to 1. share my…
You are already enough, and you are not too much. J. Nicole Morgan grew up fat and loving Jesus. But she was forever burdened by what she saw as her biggest spiritual flaw: her weight. In Fat and Faithful, she shares her journey from body shame to fat acceptance and shows us how to care…
