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Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia | Kate Manne
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The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research to expose how size discrimination harms everyone, and how to combat itfrom the acclaimed author of Down Girl and Entitled An elegant, fierce, and profound argument for fighting fat oppression in ourselves, our communities, and our culture.Roxane Gay, author of Hunger For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day, the day she became a professor, the day her daughter was born. Shes been bullied and belittled for her size, leading to extreme dieting. As a feminist philosopher, she wanted to believe that she was exempt from the cultural gaslighting that compels so many of us to ignore our hunger. But she was not. Blending intimate stories with the trenchant analysis that has become her signature, Manne shows why fatphobia has become a vital social justice issue. Over the last several decades, implicit bias has waned in every category, from race to sexual orientation, except one: body size. Manne examines how anti-fatness operateshow it leads us to make devastating assumptions about a persons attractiveness, fortitude, and intellect, and how it intersects with other systems of oppression. Fatphobia is responsible for wage gaps, medical neglect, and poor educational outcomes; it is a straitjacket, restricting our freedom, our movement, our potential. In this urgent call to action, Manne proposes a new politics of body reflexivitya radical reevaluation of who our bodies exist in the world for: ourselves and no one else. When it comes to fatphobia, the solution is not to love our bodies more. Instead, we must dismantle the forces that control and constrain us, and remake the world to accommodate people of every size.
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Using her own fatness as a jumping off point to excellent effect, Kate Manne tackles fatness and fatphobia in the most persuasive book I‘ve read on the topic. There is some cherry-picking (Glamour is not a great source to cite for surgical outcomes data), but less than I‘ve seen in other books.

NBA shortlist, nonfiction

Hooked_on_books @Megabooks I think you‘re really going to like this one. 2mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 2mo
Megabooks Thanks! It‘s in my audio queue. 2mo
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