Bodies Out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression by Jana Evans Braziel, Kathleen LeBesco

Bodies Out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression

Jana Evans Braziel, Kathleen LeBesco with Antonia Losano, Angela Stukator, Petra Kuppers, Sharon Mazer, Richard Klein, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Leía Kent, Neda Ulaby, Jerry Mosher, Sarah Shieff, Michael Moon, Marcia Chamberlain, Joyce L. Huff, Cecilia Hartley, Brenda A. Risch

368 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction essays health sociology informative medium-paced
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Since World War II, when the diet and fitness industries promoted mass obsession with weight and body shape, fat has been a dirty word. In the United States, fat is seen as repulsive, funny, ugly, unclean, obscene, and above all as something to lo...

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