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

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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