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dmichb's review
informative
medium-paced
4.0
Predictably, some of this information and the language used is a bit dated. But there are many ideas and concepts that are more relevant than ever.
hazelpine's review
5.0
One of the few/only fat studies texts I've read which so clearly map the lines of class and race and how they interact with modern day fat hatred.
butchlukedanes's review
3.0
I read this for a research paper on fat activism during my undergrad and I have to say it was very useful and I would read it more thoroughly now that a deadline isn't hanging above my head. I think it's a good introduction to fat studies and different branches of fat activism. Some of the essays are critical of some branches of fat activism (too reactionary, too liberal, etc.). Does an okay but incomplete job at being intersectional.
tklassy's review
3.0
Some of the articles in this edited volume were great...others okay. What made me only rate this three stars is the repetitive subject matter of the end of the book. Many of those articles, all by different academics or academically inclined people, were so closely related in subject matter and repetitive in quotes and examples that I found them blurring together.
The middle section of the book was delightful and intriguing and I couldn't get enough. A great collection all up for any Fat Studies or Gender Studies scholar or anyone remotely interested in Fatness in Western contexts.
The middle section of the book was delightful and intriguing and I couldn't get enough. A great collection all up for any Fat Studies or Gender Studies scholar or anyone remotely interested in Fatness in Western contexts.
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