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Unshrinking: How to Fight Fatphobia by Kate Manne

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rachbooknook's review against another edition

4.0
informative reflective medium-paced
“This is how misogyny works: take a hierarchy, any hierarchy, and use it to derogate a girl or woman. We value intelligence: so call her stupid, insane, clueless. We value rationality: so call her crazy and hysterical. We value maturity: so call her childish and irresponsible. We value morality: so call her a bad person. We value thinness: so call her fat and, implicitly or explicitly, ugly. We value sexual attractiveness: so make her out to be the kind of person whom no one could ever want,” page 102. 

Listened as an audiobook through Libro.fm AND annotated with my physical copy (yes, I buy too many books 🫣) Carmen Maria Machado said it the best with her blurb for the book, Unshrinking is a vital addition to the fat canon. 
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zombiezami's review against another edition

4.5
emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced
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buttermellow's review against another edition

5.0
challenging dark emotional informative reflective slow-paced
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mktaylor15's review against another edition

4.5
adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative medium-paced
I found this book very insightful and introspective. It blends personal experience with psychology and philosophy, challenging you to reframe how you see your body as well as fatness. The biggest takeaway is that “your body is for you”  which id refreshing as someone who struggles with her own perception of her body. 
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