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Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,974 ratings — published 2019
The Fat Studies Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.22 — 294 ratings — published 2009
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.39 — 17,805 ratings — published 2020
Bodies out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 116 ratings — published 2001
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 2,919 ratings — published 2021
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by (shelved 20 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 123,401 ratings — published 2017
Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 545 ratings — published 2011
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.21 — 31,838 ratings — published 2018
What's Wrong with Fat? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 226 ratings — published 2012
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,115 ratings — published 2008
Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.03 — 850 ratings — published 2009
FAT!SO? : Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,103 ratings — published 1998
Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 127 ratings — published
The Obesity Myth: Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.03 — 439 ratings — published 2004
Revolting Bodies?: The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 58 ratings — published 2003
You Have the Right to Remain Fat (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,656 ratings — published 2018
Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love & Fashion (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.12 — 534 ratings — published 2012
Fat Is a Feminist Issue (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,303 ratings — published 1978
The Embodiment of Disobedience: Fat Black Women's Unruly Political Bodies: Fat Black Women's Unruly Political Bodies (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 28 ratings — published 2006
Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 3.85 — 375 ratings — published 2005
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,897 ratings — published 1993
Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,499 ratings — published 2024
Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,002 ratings — published 2014
Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,244 ratings — published 2015
Shadow on a Tightrope: Writings by Women on Fat Oppression (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.48 — 75 ratings — published 1983
“You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 12,036 ratings — published 2023
Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 619 ratings — published 2021
Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,488 ratings — published 2019
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 31,827 ratings — published 1990
Fat Politics: The Real Story behind America's Obesity Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 3.65 — 235 ratings — published 2005
Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss--and the Myths and Realities of Dieting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,002 ratings — published 2007
Thick: And Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.43 — 19,087 ratings — published 2019
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 64,571 ratings — published 2016
Body Sovereignty: Fat Politics and the Fight for Human Rights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published
Queering Fat Embodiment (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.21 — 24 ratings — published 2014
Two Whole Cakes: How to Stop Dieting and Learn to Love Your Body (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 478 ratings — published 2012
Tipping the Scales of Justice: Fighting Weight Based Discrimination (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 30 ratings — published 2000
Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,630 ratings — published 2023
Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight -- and What We Can Do about It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,006 ratings — published 2015
Landwhale: On Turning Insults Into Nicknames, Why Body Image Is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,791 ratings — published 2018
The Unapologetic Fat Girl's Guide to Exercise and Other Incendiary Acts (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 515 ratings — published 2012
Killer Fat: Media, Medicine, and Morals in the American "Obesity Epidemic" (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 45 ratings — published 2012
Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 299 ratings — published 2011
Never Satisfied: A Cultural History of Diets, Fantasies & Fat (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 3.74 — 50 ratings — published 1986
Dietland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 3.56 — 22,682 ratings — published 2015
Losing It: False Hopes and Fat Profits in the Diet Industry (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 86 ratings — published 1998
Big Fat Lies: The Truth About Your Weight and Your Health (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 3.89 — 94 ratings — published 1996
Big Big Love: A Sourcebook on Sex for People of Size and Those Who Love Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 404 ratings — published 2000
Fat and Proud: The Politics of Size (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 31 ratings — published 1999
The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,459 ratings — published 2018
“If, though, the phenotype then encountered an environment richer than expected, the thrifty phenotype might be -mismatched- to the greater abundance. It is this mismatch, it is argued, that has led to the prosperity for adults to develop obesity and other metabolic disorders during adulthood in our contemporary, industrialised environments.”
― Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach
― Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach
“As members of the same species, human beings broadly share notions and precepts of morality, of what is socially regarded as a proper conduct. But again, there is no reason to think that these notions and precepts should fully converge and cohere between different people and different communities, or even in the minds of the individuals themselves.”
― Ideological Fixation: From the Stone Age to Today's Culture Wars
― Ideological Fixation: From the Stone Age to Today's Culture Wars