From Library Journal
Though only two syllables long, zaftig has a certain voluptuousness about it, much like a dollop of chocolate. Derived from Yiddish, it means "juicy." Organized in response to America's ongoing obsession with bony slimness, this collection of 18 tales celebrates the love handle, the stretch mark, the double chin, and the double-D cup in other words, the plus-size woman (straight and gay) as well as what Blank (editor, Big, Big Love: A Sourcebook on Sex for People of Size and Those Who Love Them) calls "the liberatory power of sex." Erotica, regardless of its focus, should spark the libido, but the selections here are often too obvious in their come-ons and cringingly girl-power-political. In Eleanor Brown's "Breathing Lessons," for example, a woman's cathartic love-making session is spliced with vignettes of her as a self-loathing chubby girl: "Our mothers' eyes are joyless as they surrender their credit cards to clothe their fat daughters." And so on. Though it raises some excellent questions about femininity and sexuality, Zaftig isn't as juicy as it should be. For larger erotica or gay/lesbian collections only. Heather McCormack,"Library Journal"
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Though only two syllables long, zaftig has a certain voluptuousness about it, much like a dollop of chocolate. Derived from Yiddish, it means "juicy." Organized in response to America's ongoing obsession with bony slimness, this collection of 18 tales celebrates the love handle, the stretch mark, the double chin, and the double-D cup in other words, the plus-size woman (straight and gay) as well as what Blank (editor, Big, Big Love: A Sourcebook on Sex for People of Size and Those Who Love Them) calls "the liberatory power of sex." Erotica, regardless of its focus, should spark the libido, but the selections here are often too obvious in their come-ons and cringingly girl-power-political. In Eleanor Brown's "Breathing Lessons," for example, a woman's cathartic love-making session is spliced with vignettes of her as a self-loathing chubby girl: "Our mothers' eyes are joyless as they surrender their credit cards to clothe their fat daughters." And so on. Though it raises some excellent questions about femininity and sexuality, Zaftig isn't as juicy as it should be. For larger erotica or gay/lesbian collections only. Heather McCormack, "Library Journal"
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
