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Such a Pretty Face

By Marcia Millman

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Such a Pretty Face

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Yet, despite this obsession with weight control, there is little serious discussion of the deeper meaning of obesity. In a way, obesity is as powerful a taboo as sexuality was for the Victorians. This book argues that the effort to lose weight should be secondary to an understanding of the mythology of fat. Being fat is seen as much more than a physical condition. Fat women are stereotypically viewed as unfeminine, either in flight from sexuality or sexual in some forbidden way, intentionally antisocial, out of control, hostile, aggressive. Using case studies, moving, sometimes painful, autobiographical accounts, and observing such organizations as a fat rights society, Overeaters Anonymous, and a children's diet camp, Marcia Millman reveals how people live with the burden of these stereotypes and explores the truth or falsity of them. This book proves the humanness, the defiance, vulnerability, self-doubt, courage, and even the beauty of those who violate our arbitrary standards of physical beauty. It sees them as whole people, to whom attention must be paid.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
272
Release Date:
1980-02-01
Publication Date:
1980-02-01
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0393331067
ISBN13:
9780393331066
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
388 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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