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Overcoming Fear of Fat (Paperback)
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Overcoming Fear of Fat (Paperback)
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Here is an enlightening new volume that presents an integration of
anti-fat-oppressive attitudes into the work of feminist therapy.
Overcoming Fear of Fat is unique among professional work in the
area of women and fat in that it does not approach size as the
problem; rather it approaches prejudice against fat as the problem.
Although for nearly a decade, fat activists have been raising the
issues that are confronted in this book, therapists, including
feminist therapists, have been colluding with their clients in
pathologizing fat, celebrating weight loss, and failing to
adequately challenge cultural stereotypes of attractiveness for
women, instead of empowering clients and encouraging them to take
on expert authority about their own experiences. The contributors,
including therapists and fat activists, aim to disconnect the
issues of food intake and eating disorders from those of weight.
They share personal and professional experiences of challenging fat
oppression, offer strategies for therapists to rid themselves and
their clients of fat oppressive attitudes, and most importantly,
they confront long-held cultural myths that fat is unhealthy, and
that fat women are physically unfit and are in hiding from their
sexuality or personal power. A practical and informative resource
for therapists, especially those who work with fat women or who
themselves struggle with issues of feeling critical of their own
body size, Overcoming Fear of Fat will also be a valuable guide for
fat women who wish to feel supported in their struggle for
self-worth and respect.
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