Unshrinking : how to fight fatphobia
Manne, Kate2024
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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. She's 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 trenchant analysis, Manne shows why fatphobia matters, now more than ever. Over the last decades, bias has waned in every category except one: body size. Here she examines how anti-fatness operates - how it leads us to make devastating assumptions about a person's attractiveness, fortitude and intellect.
Main title:
Unshrinking : how to fight fatphobia / Kate Manne.
Author:
Manne, Kate, author
Imprint:
UK : Allen Lane, 2024.
Collation:
297 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780241629390 (hbk)
Dewey class:
362.196398305.908362.1963
LC class:
HM1091
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3640004