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Fat Studies Books
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Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,622 ratings — published 2019
The Fat Studies Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.22 — 295 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 — 17,468 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
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by (shelved 21 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 122,023 ratings — published 2017
Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 3.90 — 543 ratings — published 2011
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.50 — 2,823 ratings — published 2021
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,043 ratings — published 2008
What's Wrong with Fat? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 224 ratings — published 2012
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 — 849 ratings — published 2009
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.21 — 31,195 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 — 1,101 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 — 438 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 12 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,630 ratings — published 2018
Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love & Fashion (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.12 — 538 ratings — published 2012
Fat Is a Feminist Issue (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,288 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 3.84 — 375 ratings — published 2005
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,883 ratings — published 1993
Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,353 ratings — published 2024
“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 — 11,822 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 — 1,982 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 — 5,217 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
Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 604 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 — 3,468 ratings — published 2019
The Beauty Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 31,295 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 — 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
Thick: And Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.43 — 18,791 ratings — published 2019
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as fat-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 63,723 ratings — published 2016
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 4.11 — 475 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 4.25 — 4,517 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 4.06 — 1,003 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
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 3.83 — 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 — 298 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 — 22,485 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 — 408 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 — 1,443 ratings — published 2018
“My life wouldn't be easier if I were thin. My life would be easier if this culture wasn't obsessed with oppressing me because I'm fat. The solution to a problem like bigotry is not to do everything in our power to accommodate the bigotry. It is to get rid of the bigotry.”
― You Have the Right to Remain Fat
― You Have the Right to Remain Fat
“The evolved preference for sugary and fatty foods (a functional mechanism) may lead to obesity because of a mismatch with modern nutrition (a maladaptive outcome), which in turn increases the risk of heart failure (a harmful dysfunction).”
― Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
― Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
