Despite the gains of the women's movement, women are still judged
by what they look like--and men, by what they do. Fat--A Fate Worse
Than Death? offers hardy resistance to the narrow, random, and
irrational appearance standards set for American women through an
approach that is personal, eclectic, courageous, and funny. If you
are interested in giving up your diet, throwing out your scales,
and concentrating on who you are on a deeper level, this book will
show you how to accept, appreciate, and even love your body Using
statistics, research, anecdotes, and personal experiences, Fat--A
Fate Worse Than Death? explores how appearance standards have built
a prison for women. With the book's helpful advice, reading
suggestions, and list of more than 100 ways to fight looksism,
sexism, ageism, and racism, you will learn to express your rights
and needs, regardless of your shape or size, and tear down those
prison walls. Designed to transcend the boundaries between the
personal and the political, Fat--A Fate Worse Than Death?
discusses: 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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