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challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
A good analysis of fatness, although I would really recommend pairing this with "the Body is not an Apology". This book was strong on helping you identify your own relationship to food (if you could eat whatever you wanted, what would you eat, and why? what do you want to eat right now, if at all? do you feel confident you can eat when hungry?) and your relationship to your body (if you were at a party, at various sizes, how does your size impact how you feel/what you think is expected of you)?
The Body is not an Apology is then a great follow-on in terms of self-acceptance at any size, and linking fatphobia to other things like transphobia (the body needing to be a certain way), ableism, and racism.
The Body is not an Apology is then a great follow-on in terms of self-acceptance at any size, and linking fatphobia to other things like transphobia (the body needing to be a certain way), ableism, and racism.
I picked this up thinking that this would look at the relationships between food and dieting and the use of these to control women's bodies and lives, a concept that has been touched upon in some of the other literature I've read. But it wasn't really that. This does start out looking at this but then it shifts focus to the reasons behind compulsive eating and how to break these habits. The advice and exercises are interesting but I did feel that there was a lot of focus on being slim and some quite substantial assumptions that in controlling compulsive eating everyone can be slim. I kind of expected more of a focus on acceptance of body size and shape and listening to its needs rather than slim-ness being the end goal.
informative
slow-paced
I can’t concentrate on this right now. I’m reading heavy fantasy and that’s taking up all my brain power 😂
Confession: I didn't finish this book.
I had heard bits about it, and the title plus reviews on the back made me think "Here's a classic! A pioneer on the road to the incredible anti-diet and body positivity feminism today that helped me enormously with my disordered eating, and my view of my body."
But NO. This book is fat-shaming wrapped up in psychology about the reasons women over-eat. Sure some of those reasons may be true, and unpacking internalised body shame and other issues that affect women, may indeed help some people to eat in a more healthy way.
But having a positive relationship with food, and with your body, is so much more than individualising women's overeating. And self-help books are often a red flag for me. As is any attempt at "self-improvement" , that doesn't acknoweldge the huge spectrum of experiences and societal layers of oppression that will impact on people in a variety of ways.
The assumption that all women start as thin, and become fat through psychological issues faced by women.. is just bullshit.
I didn't see any intersectionality , and NO critique of the assumption that a women's body should always aim to be thin. It seemed to be to be another attempt to control a women's body, and the way she interacts with it.
Having said that, some bits of the book (that i read) were insightful and helpful. But at the great cost of overall messages of fat-shaming. Not cool.
I had heard bits about it, and the title plus reviews on the back made me think "Here's a classic! A pioneer on the road to the incredible anti-diet and body positivity feminism today that helped me enormously with my disordered eating, and my view of my body."
But NO. This book is fat-shaming wrapped up in psychology about the reasons women over-eat. Sure some of those reasons may be true, and unpacking internalised body shame and other issues that affect women, may indeed help some people to eat in a more healthy way.
But having a positive relationship with food, and with your body, is so much more than individualising women's overeating. And self-help books are often a red flag for me. As is any attempt at "self-improvement" , that doesn't acknoweldge the huge spectrum of experiences and societal layers of oppression that will impact on people in a variety of ways.
The assumption that all women start as thin, and become fat through psychological issues faced by women.. is just bullshit.
I didn't see any intersectionality , and NO critique of the assumption that a women's body should always aim to be thin. It seemed to be to be another attempt to control a women's body, and the way she interacts with it.
Having said that, some bits of the book (that i read) were insightful and helpful. But at the great cost of overall messages of fat-shaming. Not cool.