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Fat (Paperback)
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Fat (Paperback)
Series: Object Lessons
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Loot Price R247
Discovery Miles 2 470
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books
about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Public enemy. Crucial
macronutrient. Health risk. Punchline. Moneymaker. Epidemic. Sexual
fetish. Moral failing. Necessary bodily organ. Conveyor of flavor.
Freak-show spectacle. Never mind the stereotype, fat is never
sedentary: its definitions, identities, and meanings are manifold
and in constant motion. Demonized in medicine and public policy,
adored by chefs and nutritional faddists (and let's face it, most
of us who eat), simultaneously desired and abhorred when it comes
to sex, and continually courted by a multi-billion-dollar fitness
and weight-loss industry, for so many people "fat" is ironically
nothing more than an insult or a state of despair. In Hanne Blank's
Fat we find fat as state, as possession, as metaphor, as symptom,
as object of desire, intellectual and carnal. Here, "feeling fat"
and literal fat merge, blurring the boundaries and infusing one
another with richer, fattier meanings. Object Lessons is published
in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
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