Reviews tagging 'Racism'
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
31 reviews
eschorrlesnick's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Medical trauma, Fatphobia, Misogyny, and Racism
taratearex's review against another edition
5.0
This book is dense and does read somewhat like a history textbook, but it is also clear and concise and lays out the facts so well in only about 200 pages. Because it is more a presentation of the facts, there isn't much analysis so I would recommend reading this in addition to other books on anti-fat bias and racism for more of the analysis part, such as What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat Aubrey Gordon and Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness Da’Shaun Harrison. But this was an excellent book on the history of how we got to where we are now and well worth the read.
I listened to the audiobook in tandem with my physical copy so that I could highlight, this was also helpful as there are a lot of names and dates which I have a harder time with if it's just audiobook.
Graphic: Fatphobia, Racism, and Body shaming
Moderate: Slavery, Sexism, Ableism, and Misogyny
leontyna's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Racism, Fatphobia, and Slavery
Moderate: Antisemitism and Misogyny
kpeps's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Medical content, Religious bigotry, Body shaming, and Fatphobia
Moderate: Racism, Infertility, Classism, Fatphobia, Sexism, and Slavery
Minor: Eating disorder and Pandemic/Epidemic
ravennemain's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Misogyny, Fatphobia, and Racism
melindamaureen's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Fatphobia and Racism
katharina90's review against another edition
3.0
The author does connect some dots between fatphobia and racism, classism and other forms of oppression but the vast majority of the text centers around white men's attempts to control white women's bodies. I wish there was a much heavier emphasis on the intersectional analysis.
While some of the language feels outdated overall, there's also a lot of fatphobic language throughout this book with no acknowledgement or explanation, so I can't tell if these terms are used intentionally (and if so, why?) or if the author's own fatphobia might be showing.
Graphic: Fatphobia and Body shaming
Moderate: Classism, Racism, Slavery, Colonisation, and Eating disorder
meganmalonefranklin's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Religious bigotry, Slavery, Infertility, Bullying, Colonisation, Classism, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Racism, Alcohol, Racial slurs, and Misogyny
mandkips's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Racism, Body shaming, and Fatphobia
Moderate: Misogyny and Eating disorder
Minor: Sexism and Ableism
kathrynhoss's review against another edition
5.0
As we have seen, the current anti-fat bias in the United States, and in much of the West, was not born in the medical field. Racial scientific literature since at least the 18th century has claimed that fatness was savage and Black... because women are typically reduced to their bodies, fat stigma has commonly targeted racial ethnic Other women. Protestant moralism and the distain of indulgence contributed to the cacophony of pro-thin, anti-fat bias. The medical field has been the most recent institution to enter the fray.
Graphic: Fatphobia, Body shaming, Xenophobia, and Racism