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

Bodies Out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression

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

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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