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000867161 1001_ $$aStrings, Sabrina,$$eauthor.
000867161 24510 $$aFearing the black body :$$bthe racial origins of fat phobia /$$cSabrina Strings.
000867161 264_1 $$aNew York, NY :$$bNew York University Press,$$c[2019]
000867161 300__ $$a283 pages :$$billustrations ;$$c23 cm
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000867161 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia
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000867161 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000867161 5050_ $$aIntroduction : 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.
000867161 520__ $$a"There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as "diseased" and a burden on the public health care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than two hundred years ago. Strings weaves together an eye-opening historical narrative ranging from the Renaissance to the current moment, analyzing important works of art, newspaper and magazine articles, and scientific literature and medical journals--where fat bodies were once praised--showing that fat phobia, as it relates to black women, did not originate with medical findings, but with the Enlightenment era belief that fatness was evidence of "savagery" and racial inferiority. The author argues that the contemporary ideal of slenderness is, at its very core, racialized and racist. Indeed, it was not until the early twentieth century, when racialized attitudes against fatness were already entrenched in the culture, that the medical establishment began its crusade against obesity. An important and original work, Fearing the Black Body argues convincingly that fat phobia isn't about health at all, but rather a means of using the body to validate race, class, and gender prejudice."--Amazon.com.
000867161 650_0 $$aFeminine beauty (Aesthetics)$$xSocial aspects$$zUnited States.
000867161 650_0 $$aAfrican American women$$xSocial conditions.
000867161 650_0 $$aOverweight women$$zUnited States$$xSocial conditions.
000867161 650_0 $$aObesity$$xSocial aspects$$zUnited States.
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