Fat - a Fate Worse Than Death? : Women, Weight, and Appearance.

By:

Cole, Ellen

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Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781317823162

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fat - a Fate Worse Than Death?DDC classification:

616.3/98/0019

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BF697.5.B63 .C384 2

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Contents:

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface: The Beginning of a Journey -- SECTION I: MY OWN TRUTHS -- Chapter 1. Welcome to the World Beyond Size 10 -- Chapter 2. Doubt: Whistling in the Dark -- Chapter 3. For You, Jane, Too Late? -- Chapter 4. Who Do I See in Another's Eyes? -- Chapter 5. Tucking in My Blouse -- Chapter 6. There's Good Work Out There: What Others Are Saying -- Chapter 7. I See My Insides/You See My Outsides -- Chapter 8. The Lifelong Diet -- Chapter 9. What's Funny About Fat? -- Chapter 10. Does "Old and Fat" Mean I've Given Up? -- Chapter 11. This Body I Live In -- SECTION II: WHAT THE OUTSIDE WORLD BELIEVES -- Chapter 12. I Am Not Your Punching Bag! -- Chapter 13. Is Ugly True? -- Chapter 14. Screaming in the Face of the World, or What Does Acceptance Look Like? -- Chapter 15. Help! The Avalanche Roars Down on Us -- Chapter 16. The Birds -- Chapter 17. Why Do I Feel Like a Bull's Eye? -- Chapter 18. Weight Watchers: How They Want Us Back! -- Chapter 19. Don't Raise Your Head-They're Still Shooting! -- SECTION III: TIME TO MOVE ON -- Chapter 20. Love Letters -- Chapter 21. Raw Courage in the Face of Horror Stories -- Chapter 22. Breaking Free -- Chapter 23. Trudging Through -- Chapter 24. Fighting Back -- Chapter 25. Images of Ourselves-Good and Awful -- Chapter 26. Steps to Freedom -- Epilogue: 100-Plus Ways to Fight Ageism, Looksism, Sexism, Racism, Fatism -- Index.

Summary: 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 consumer Feminists, 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 subscribingSummary: 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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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 consumer Feminists, 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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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