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"These hard-hitting, provocative essays set the stage for a new paradigm honoring weight diversity and mark an important moment in the history of social justice" Linda Bacon, author of Health at Every Size "A path-breaking anthology, and the first to map this emerging field. Leading scholars and activists from diverse disciplinary backgrounds explore the pervasiveness of prejudice based on body size, and challenge conventional policy responses. By focusing on goals of health, fitness, and social tolerance, The Fat Studies Reader redefines the 'problem' of weight and invites more promising solutions." Deborah Rhode, Stanford Law School "With 40 essays that span an impressive array of academic and popular approaches, this book is the first to collect the essential texts of the blossoming discipline known as fat studies, which explores why the oppression of fat people remains acceptable in American culture...It may be too soon for the movement to offer utopian alternatives, but these essays offer a rich supply of tools for the activist and scholar willing to start the revolution, including a "fat liberation manifesto." Publisher's Weekly
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We have all seen the segments on television news shows: a fat person walking on the sidewalk, her face out of frame so she can't be identified, as some disconcerting findings about the 'obesity epidemic' stalking the nation are read by a disembodied voice. And we have seen the movies - their obvious lack of large leading actors silently speaking volumes. From the government, health industry, diet industry, news media, and popular culture we hear that we should all be focused on our weight. But is this national obsession with weight and thinness good for us? Or is it just another form of prejudice - one with especially dire consequences for many already disenfranchised groups? For decades, a growing cadre of scholars has been examining the role of body weight in society, critiquing the underlying assumptions, prejudices, and effects of how people perceive and relate to fatness. This burgeoning movement, known as fat studies, includes scholars from every field, as well as activists, artists, and intellectuals. "The Fat Studies Reader" is a milestone achievement, bringing together fifty-three diverse voices to explore a wide range of topics related to body weight. From the historical construction of fatness to public health policy, from job discrimination to social class disparities, from chick-lit to airline seats, this collection covers it all. Edited by two leaders in the field, "The Fat Studies Reader" is an invaluable resource that provides a historical overview of fat studies, an in-depth examination of the movement's fundamental concerns, and an up-to-date look at its innovative research.
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A Big Fat Tour de Force!, Nov 6 2009
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This review is from: The Fat Studies Reader (Paperback)
This is a comprehensive and needed volume that introduces Fat Studies as a discipline as well as a needed antidote to rampant fear-mongering about obesity. Intellectually solid, creative, political and inter-disciplinary, this volume is an absolute must-read for anyone interested in a critical perspective on the current discourse on obesity!
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Spectacular assessment of the FAT situation and an amazing body of work, Mar 31 2010
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What an amazing book. I read every single page and every essay and loved it start to finish.In some ways I've always felt like a late-comer to Fat Studies, though the pursuit is still in its nascence, but the Fat Studies Reader caught me up to speed on a variety of topics.
I love that this book is out there and I only hope that it will get into more classrooms so that students can start to understand that there's so much more dimension to a fat life than the medicalized view of "obesity" allows.
Congratulations to all of those involved in this amazing project.
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An indispensable resource, April 16 2010
By Angela T - Published on Amazon.com
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This is a truly indispensable resource which has no comparison in the current literature. Other titles glaze over some of the topics covered here, but none in such comprehensive detail. Part civil rights manifesto, scientific treatise and interdisciplinary reader this volume goes where others dare not tread. I highly recommend this title for inclusion in any analysis of popular culture and it's effects on diversity.
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