Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings

48 reviews

llams's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Medical content, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Classism

Moderate: Slavery

inthemoonlight's review against another edition

challenging dark informative slow-paced

4.0

Extremely educational, but definitely agree w some of the other reviews about how it can be a bit dry to keep up with and how it focuses quite a bit on white bodies (which comes from explaining how the controlling of white women's bodies came from from the fear/degredation of black women's bodies, but still nonetheless focuses on white women the most)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Colonisation, and Classism

Moderate: Medical trauma

sarahshunter's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

There is so much I could say about this invaluable book, but to me the most important thing is it made me, a white woman, realize that my understanding of feminism, as well as racism, was totally incomplete without this history of the construction of anti-fatness. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Fatphobia, Misogyny, and Racism

thewolfthatlivesinlindsey's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Fantastic historical account on how we came to designate thin (white) bodies to be “good”

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia, Racism, Slavery, and Colonisation

sicilyjoy's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Racism, and Sexism

Minor: Slavery

ssolov's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Xenophobia, and Colonisation

emmettdakool's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia and Racism

coralcrab77's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

only downside is that it reads like a textbook, but it's so informative and a necessary read for everyone!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Racism, Xenophobia, and Colonisation

caelinsullivan's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Antisemitism, and Colonisation

tracey1981's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

3.5

Some very interesting info here that makes a strong case for fatphobia being rooted in racism, but it wasn’t written in a way I found particularly compelling. I wanted more analysis, more narrative, or a little more of both.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Racial slurs, and Racism