04619cam a2200817 4500 598690378 TxAuBib 20220602120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780807041321 0807041327 B0852P7XR9 Amazon 6be58bed-4546-4303-9359-aaa92dde3cca OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5293563 OverDrive (Product ID) 645819 645819 645819 TxAuBib Gordon, Aubrey. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat [Libby]. Beacon Press, 2020. weight. biographies and memoirs. bias. feminism books. Social Justice. feminist book. Memoirs. sociology books. history books. feminist books. Biography. empathy. autobiographies. human rights. culture. Diversity. women in history. anthropology. historical nonfiction. activist. Inclusion. activism. science books. feminist. feminism. Science. Feminist theory. fatness. books for women. Sociology. feminist gifts. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. discrimination. self love books for women. fat acceptance. History. Cultural anthropology. anthropology books. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 4785kB. memoir books. Sociology. Nonfiction. Biography & Autobiography. HTML:<b>From the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people.</b><br /> Anti-fatness is everywhere. In <i>What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat</i>, Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have led to people being denied basic needs because they are fat and calls for social justice movements to be inclusive of plus-sized people’s experiences. Unlike the recent wave of memoirs and quasi self-help books that encourage readers to love and accept themselves, Gordon pushes the discussion further towards authentic fat activism, which includes ending legal weight discrimination, giving equal access to health care for large people, increased access to public spaces, and ending anti-fat violence. As she argues, “I did not come to body positivity for self-esteem. I came to it for social justice.”<br /> By sharing her experiences as well as those of others—from smaller fat to very fat people—she concludes that to be fat in our society is to be seen as an undeniable failure, unlovable, unforgivable, and morally condemnable. Fatness is an open invitation for others to express disgust, fear, and insidious <i>concern</i>. To be fat is to be denied humanity and empathy. Studies show that fat survivors of sexual assault are less likely to be believed and less likely than their thin counterparts to report various crimes; 27% of very fat women and 13% of very fat men attempt suicide; over 50% of doctors describe their fat patients as “awkward, unattractive, ugly and noncompliant”; and in 48 states, it’s legal—even routine—to deny employment because of an applicant’s size.<br /> Advancing fat justice and changing prejudicial structures and attitudes will require work from all people. <i>What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat</i> is a crucial tool to create a tectonic shift in the way we see, talk about, and treat our bodies, fat and thin alike. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-31 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6be58bed-4546-4303-9359-aaa92dde3cca&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6be58bed-4546-4303-9359-aaa92dde3cca&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6be58bed-4546-4303-9359-aaa92dde3cca&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)