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Fearing the black body : the racial origins of fat phobia
Author
Title
Fearing the black body : the racial origins of fat phobia / Sabrina Strings.
ISBN
9781479891788 (electronic bk.)
1479891789 (electronic bk.)
9781479886753
1479886750
9781479819805
1479819808
Publication
New York : New York University Press, [2019]
Physical Description
1 online resource (vii, 283 pages) : illustrations.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
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Variant and related titles
Racial origins of fat phobia
Other formats
Original
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 06, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : the original epidemic
Being Venus
Plump women and thin, fine men
The rise of the big black woman
Birth of the ascetic aesthetic
American beauty : the reign of the slender aesthetic
Thinness as American exceptionalism
Good health to uplift the race
Fat, revisited
Epilogue : the obesity epidemic.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Obesity.
African Americans.
Female.
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