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Fat - A Fate Worse Than Death? - Women, Weight, and Appearance (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,950
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Fat - A Fate Worse Than Death? - Women, Weight, and Appearance (Hardcover): Ellen Cole, Esther D Rothblum, Ruth R. Thone

Fat - A Fate Worse Than Death? - Women, Weight, and Appearance (Hardcover)

Ellen Cole, Esther D Rothblum, Ruth R. Thone

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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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Imprint: Routledge Member of the Taylor and Francis Group
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 1997
First published: 1997
Authors: Ellen Cole • Esther D Rothblum • Ruth R. Thone
Dimensions: 216 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 978-0-7890-0178-8
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology
Books > Medicine > Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences > Physiology > Metabolism
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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN: 0-7890-0178-0
Barcode: 9780789001788

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