Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

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

7 reviews

eslsilver's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Fatphobia, Misogyny, 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

k_perry's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

A great introduction to the ways in which fatphobia and racism/white supremacy are intertwined. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, and Misogyny

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

monkymarzipan's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

I listened to this as an audiobook and I think that's how I was able to get through it. It is full of data and numbers and years, and if I were to try to read it in paper I'm sure all of the data would have made my eyes glaze over. My only qualm is that the book glossed over the 20th century in the last chapter, and spent 8 other chapters largely in the 16-1800s. While I did enjoy the historical context and it was never dry or repetitive, I have to wonder if we needed to spend quite as much time on the Kelloggs and the Medicis, since I would have really loved to delve a bit deeper into the modern age instead of a sort of overview of how fatphobia shifted suddenly from religion to medicine-driven. Anyway, I really enjoyed the book and would recommend it to anyone wanting to shift their perspective on body image and health.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia and Medical trauma

rachbake's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, Xenophobia, Body shaming, Trafficking, and Antisemitism

Minor: Ableism, Medical trauma, and Slavery

sucreslibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

holy shit. what is there to say? this book is so thorough in exploring how america is where it is now with fatphobia and how deep racism runs in the aesthetics of this country. I will say this is not a book to read if you're wanting opinions or commentary on events. This is much more factual, laying out what happened when and by who and how each artist, scholar, scientist and philosopher influenced the next. While engaging and informative, this can sometimes be a hard read with the intense racism and fatphobia that is referenced and quoted. It's eye-opening on many levels, and should be more widely recommended!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Antisemitism, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, Racism, Religious bigotry, and Slavery