Fearing the Black Body : : The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia /

Fearing the Black Body : : The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia / / Sabrina Strings.

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Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHonorable Mention, 2020 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHow the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years There...

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Strings, Sabrina,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 41 black and white illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The Original Epidemic
  • Part I The Beauty of the Robust
  • 1 Being Venus
  • 2 Plump Women and Thin, Fine Men
  • Part II Race, Weight, God, and Country
  • 3 The Rise of the Big Black Woman
  • 4 Birth of the Ascetic Aesthetic
  • 5 American Beauty: The Reign of the Slender Aesthetic
  • 6 Thinness as American Exceptionalism
  • Part III Doctors Weigh In
  • 7 Good Health to Uplift the Race
  • 8 Fat, Revisited
  • Epilogue: The Obesity Epidemic
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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