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Strings, Sabrina.
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Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- Social aspects -- United States.
Women, Black -- Social conditions.
Overweight women -- United States -- Social conditions.
Obesity -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Strings, Sabrina.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- Social aspects -- United States.
Women, Black -- Social conditions.
Overweight women -- United States -- Social conditions.
Obesity -- Social aspects -- United States.
MARC Display
Fearing the black body : the
racial
origins
of
fat
phobia
/ Sabrina Strings.
by
Strings, Sabrina.
New York University Press, 2019.
Call #:
305.48896 S918f
Subjects
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- Social aspects -- United States.
Women, Black -- Social conditions.
Overweight women -- United States -- Social conditions.
Obesity -- Social aspects -- United States.
ISBN:
9781479886753 (pbk.)
Alternate title:
Racial
origins
of
fat
phobia
Description:
vii, 283 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as "diseased" and a burden on the public health care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of
fat
black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than two hundred years ago. Strings weaves together an eye-opening historical narrative ranging from the Renaissance to the current moment, analyzing important works of art, newspaper and magazine articles, and scientific literature and medical journals--where
fat
bodies were once praised--showing that
fat
phobia
, as it relates to black women, did not originate with medical findings, but with the Enlightenment era belief that fatness was evidence of "savagery" and
racial
inferiority. The author argues that the contemporary ideal of slenderness is, at its very core, racialized and racist. Indeed, it was not until the early twentieth century, when racialized attitudes against fatness were already entrenched in the culture, that the medical establishment began its crusade against obesity. An important and original work, Fearing the Black Body argues convincingly that
fat
phobia
isn't about health at all, but rather a means of using the body to validate race, class, and gender prejudice."--From publisher.
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Bedford Public Library
Adult Black Nonfiction
305.48896 S918f
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