Reviews tagging 'Antisemitism'

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

12 reviews

caelinsullivan's review

challenging informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

leontyna's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

4.0

It was very informative but I would have appreciated some summaries of the chapters, at times I was a bit lost what the point of particular stories/chapter was besides "people changed their mind all the time about what is dangerous, thinness or fatness, and anti-fatness has definitive racial origins". But I'm really glad I listened to the book and I plan to read more about the topic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Fatphobia, and Slavery

Moderate: Antisemitism and Misogyny

meganmalonefranklin's review

challenging informative

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Slavery, Infertility, Bullying, Colonisation, Classism, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Racism, Alcohol, Racial slurs, and Misogyny

puttingwingsonwords's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

I had seen Fearing the Black Body recommended in pretty much every antifatness related book list, so when I saw it was available on my audiobook app, I immediately added it to my shelf. Anyone who wants to dive a little deeper than the basics and learn about the history of antifatness and its roots in racism and eugenics should read this book.

It’s not long and while the language is academic, it’s not overly complicated. The audiobook was easy to follow. I haven’t listened to a lot of nonfiction audiobooks yet so I was afraid that my attention would waver, but it was the opposite: I listened for much longer stretches than I usually do because I was so intrigued.

Fearing the Black Body helps put the current discussions around antifatness into a historical context and shows how much we are still influenced by decades or centuries old ideas of eugenicist doctors and ‘race scientists’ who spouted ‘scientific’ ideas with no basis in research or reality.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, Antisemitism, Fatphobia, Ableism, Body shaming, and Colonisation

Moderate: Genocide, Racial slurs, and Religious bigotry

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

jaiari12's review

challenging informative slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Racism, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Antisemitism, Body shaming, Classism, Colonisation, Fatphobia, Misogyny, and Racial slurs

orlagal's review against another edition

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

becksusername's review against another edition

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

keatynbergsten's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

4.5

This book was a denser read and took me a little bit to really get into but once I got my rhythm I found it to be super interesting.  A really great in depth look at how racism contributed to cultures obsession with being thin.  She gives an in depth look at this from an art history perspective as well as looking at the development of using BMI to measure health.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Fatphobia, and Racism

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