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

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

Sabrina Strings

304 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred yearsThere is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as "diseased" and a burden on the public health care system. This is only the most rec...

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