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Fat - A Fate Worse Than Death?
Women, Weight, and Appearance
Ellen Cole , Esther D Rothblum , Ruth R Thone
- examples of how weight and size constitute the last socially accepted prejudice
- the national “War on Fat”
- counteracting societal influences that support weight preoccupation
- connection between appearance standards for older women and large women
- nurturing your body
- resisting male-defined standards of beauty for women
- the myth of diets and dieting
- how the body resists weight loss
- how women are disempowered by concentration on weight and appearance
- how concentrating on appearance leaves real-life issues unaddressed
- how feeling bad about yourself can turn you into a willing consumerFeminists, faculty and students of women’s studies programs, aging women, women of radical politics, and other concerned women and men will find that Fat--A Fate Worse Than Death? states explicitly how women are kept powerless by subscribing to cultural and social edicts on physical appearance. Don’t live silently in a society that degrades and discounts women because of their physical stature and don‘t let obsession with thinness keep you passive, docile, and unable to give your energy to things that really need your passion and intelligence. Read this book and learn to not only value yourself for who you are, but also to counteract American culture’s equality-denying prejudices and practices.
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