Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

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

12 reviews

ssolov's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

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Content Warnings

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

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: Xenophobia, Racism, Colonisation, and Fatphobia

amandadevoursbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

In Fearing the Black Body, Sabrina Strings meticulously examines the history of white Western thought around race, body weight and health, and societal standards of beauty.  It was a fascinating read.  The depths of how eugenics shaped modern US/European society are horrifying, and this book pulls the threads cleanly out for the reader to examine the impact. Well worth the read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Racism, Xenophobia, Sexual violence, Fatphobia, and Colonisation

maevedora's review

informative

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Racism, Slavery, Religious bigotry, Xenophobia, and Misogyny

kathrynhoss's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

5.0

A must-read to understand anti-fat bias in the Western world and how it relates back to white supremacy. 

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.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Body shaming, Xenophobia, and Racism

nyoom's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

0.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Kidnapping, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Classism, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Death, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Rape, Ableism, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Colonisation, Deportation, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Alcohol, Child death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Slavery, Trafficking, Violence, Xenophobia, Drug abuse, Genocide, Medical content, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Torture, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, and Transphobia

Moderate: Medical trauma, Gore, and Blood

zombiezami's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Medical content, Racism, Fatphobia, Religious bigotry, Injury/Injury detail, Body shaming, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Slavery, and Classism

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Sexual content, Ableism, Antisemitism, and Genocide

Minor: War, Infertility, and Alcohol

Eugenics

orlagal's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Torture, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Slavery, Trafficking, Abandonment, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Classism, Colonisation, Death, Gaslighting, Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, Body horror, Cultural appropriation, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, and Violence

lowkeymarie's review

dark informative medium-paced

3.0

This was a lot drier in tone than I was anticipating, and the section on medical fatphobia was especially triggering. Glad to have read it, but I don't know that I would recommend it to just anyone.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Racism, Racial slurs, Sexism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Slavery

becksusername's review

dark informative sad slow-paced

4.5

This was really interesting and gave a wide range of context for the fatphobic culture we currently live in. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Antisemitism, Body shaming, Colonisation, Fatphobia, Genocide, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Racism, Slavery, Trafficking, Xenophobia, and Eating disorder