Fearing the black body : the racial origins of fat phobia / Sabrina Strings.
Fearing the black body : the racial origins of fat phobia / Sabrina Strings.
Fearing the black body : the racial origins of fat phobia / Sabrina Strings.
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Publisher
New York : New York University Press, [2019]
Call Numbers
G 2019/3578
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
vii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction : the original epidemic -- Being Venus -- Plump women and thin, fine men -- The rise of the big black woman -- Birth of the ascetic aesthetic -- American beauty : the reign of the slender aesthetic -- Thinness as American exceptionalism -- Good health to uplift the race -- Fat, revisite...
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Publisher
New York : New York University Press, [2019]
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2019]
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Summary
"There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as "diseased" and a burden on the public health care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than two hundred years ago. Strings weaves together an eye-opening historical...
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Fearing the black body : the racial origins of fat phobia / Sabrina Strings.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2019/3578
Record Identifier
74VKVe6qNrrA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVe6qNrrA
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ISBN
1479819808 hardcover alkaline paper
9781479886753 paperback alkaline paper
1479886750 paperback alkaline paper
9781479819805 hardcover alkaline paper
DDC
305.48896073
MMS ID
991024252717402626
