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Today we are urged from all sides to slim down and shape up, to shed a few pounds or lose life-threatening stones. The media’s relentless obsession with size may be perceived as a twenty-first-century phenomenon, but as award-winning historian Louise Foxcroft shows, we have been struggling with what to eat, when and how much, ever…
In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long engaged with disability as a political issue deeply tied to race and racism. She points out that this work has not been recognized…
By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids believe that “fat” is bad. By middle school, more than a quarter of them have gone on a diet. What are parents supposed to do? Kids learn, as we’ve all learned, that thinness is a survival strategy in a world that equates body size and value. Parents…
A timely anthology that explores power, privilege, and oppression and their relationship to marginalized bodies Asserting that the body is the main site of oppression in Western society, the contributors to this pioneering volume explore the complex issue of embodiment and how it relates to social inclusion and marginalization. In a culture where bodies of…
Author: Saguy Abigail C. Edition: Reprint Format: Kindle eBook Package Dimensions: 0x0x0 Number Of Pages: 274 Release Date: 03-12-2012 Details: The United States, we are told, is facing an obesity epidemic-a “battle of the bulge” of not just national, but global proportions-that requires drastic and immediate action. Experts in the media, medical science, and government…
Author: Nolan Savala Edition: Not for Online Format: Kindle eBook Package Dimensions: 0x0x0 Number Of Pages: 207 Release Date: 13-07-2021
Author: Bowen Sesali Format: Kindle eBook Package Dimensions: 0x0x0 Number Of Pages: 272 Release Date: 05-10-2021
Author: Cottom Tressie McMillan Format: Kindle eBook Package Dimensions: 0x0x0 Number Of Pages: 235 Release Date: 01-10-2019 Details: One of Book Riot‘s “The Best Books We Read in October 2018” “To say this collection is transgressive, provocative, and brilliant is simply to tell you the truth.” —Roxane Gay, author of Hunger and Bad Feminist Smart,…
Author: Boekweg Sheena Format: Kindle eBook Package Dimensions: 0x0x0 Number Of Pages: 346 Release Date: 01-06-2021
Author: Johnson Lora Beth Format: Kindle eBook Package Dimensions: 0x0x0 Number Of Pages: 429 Release Date: 24-08-2021
Author: Johnson Lora Beth Format: Kindle eBook Package Dimensions: 0x0x0 Number Of Pages: 397 Release Date: 30-06-2020 Details: Andra wakes up from a cryogenic sleep 1,000 years later than she was supposed to, forcing her to team up with an exiled prince to navigate an unfamiliar planet in this smart, thrilling sci-fi adventure, perfect for…
Author: Garrett Camryn Format: Kindle eBook Package Dimensions: 0x0x0 Number Of Pages: 307 Release Date: 18-05-2021
Author: Hollowell Sarah Format: Kindle eBook Package Dimensions: 0x0x0 Number Of Pages: 373 Release Date: 14-09-2021
Author: Glass Seressia Format: Kindle eBook Package Dimensions: 0x0x0 Number Of Pages: 316 Release Date: 14-12-2021
Author: Yeboah Stephanie Edition: 01 Format: Kindle eBook Package Dimensions: 0x0x0 Number Of Pages: 267 Release Date: 03-09-2020
Author: Thompson Ali Edition: 1 Format: Kindle eBook Package Dimensions: 0x0x0 Number Of Pages: 40 Release Date: 28-06-2019 Details: “They don’t make plus size spacesuits” is a sci-fi short story collection, featuring an introductory essay. It is written by long-time fat activist, Ali Thompson of Ok2BeFat. This book is a incandescent cry from the heart,…
