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Fat Studies Books
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Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,424 ratings — published 2019
The Fat Studies Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.24 — 295 ratings — published 2009
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 17,235 ratings — published 2020
Bodies out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 116 ratings — published 2001
Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 3.90 — 536 ratings — published 2011
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by (shelved 19 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 120,896 ratings — published 2017
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,990 ratings — published 2008
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.50 — 2,718 ratings — published 2021
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 — 852 ratings — published 2009
What's Wrong with Fat? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 223 ratings — published 2012
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.22 — 30,693 ratings — published 2018
FAT!SO? : Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,104 ratings — published 1998
Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 125 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 4.04 — 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 4.26 — 2,611 ratings — published 2018
Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love & Fashion (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.11 — 539 ratings — published 2012
Fat Is a Feminist Issue (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,274 ratings — published 1978
Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 3.85 — 370 ratings — published 2005
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,872 ratings — published 1993
“You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.32 — 11,621 ratings — published 2023
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 4.20 — 1,969 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 4.00 — 5,198 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
Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,252 ratings — published 2024
The Beauty Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 30,926 ratings — published 1990
The Embodiment of Disobedience: Fat Black Women's Unruly Political Bodies (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 28 ratings — published 2006
Fat Politics: The Real Story behind America's Obesity Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 3.67 — 233 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 — 1,000 ratings — published 2007
Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 602 ratings — published 2021
Thick: And Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.43 — 18,567 ratings — published 2019
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 63,366 ratings — published 2016
Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,463 ratings — published 2019
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 — 477 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
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 — 993 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 — 1,790 ratings — published 2018
Body Sovereignty: Fat Politics and the Fight for Human Rights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published
The Unapologetic Fat Girl's Guide to Exercise and Other Incendiary Acts (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 3.82 — 513 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 4.05 — 293 ratings — published 2011
Never Satisfied: A Cultural History of Diets, Fantasies & Fat (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 3.71 — 48 ratings — published 1986
Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,413 ratings — published 2023
Dietland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 3.56 — 22,413 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 — 95 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 — 409 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 — 1,433 ratings — published 2018
“Humans went from experiential and physical beings to conceptual ones, and one could surmise that in the future we will become even more brainy still. The changes in sedentary lifestyle alone are staggering. Dietary changes might have led to a diabetes since there may be different levels of pancreatic reserve. The explosion of carbohydrate intake that moderns indulge in may surpass the limit of the pancreas to endure, resulting in either childhood diabetes or later onset type 2 diabetes. We must be careful not to outsmart ourselves and in vanquishing the predators that plagues us for millions of years to create new ones. Having moved from chaos to order, we need to appreciate order’s value, to protect and enhance it. Any slide into chaos may well be swift and irreversible.”
― Footprints of Schizophrenia: The Evolutionary Roots of Mental Illness
― Footprints of Schizophrenia: The Evolutionary Roots of Mental Illness
“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
