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082 0 4 _a305.48896073
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aStrings, Sabrina
_eautore
245 1 0 _aFearing the Black Body :
_bThe Racial Origins of Fat Phobia /
_cSabrina Strings.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bNew York University Press,
_c[2019]
264 4 _c©2019
300 _a1 online resource :
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336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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520 _aWinner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHonorable Mention, 2020 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHow the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as “diseased” and a burden on the public health care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than two hundred years ago.Strings weaves together an eye-opening historical narrative ranging from the Renaissance to the current moment, analyzing important works of art, newspaper and magazine articles, and scientific literature and medical journals—where fat bodies were once praised—showing that fat phobia, as it relates to black women, did not originate with medical findings, but with the Enlightenment era belief that fatness was evidence of “savagery” and racial inferiority. The author argues that the contemporary ideal of slenderness is, at its very core, racialized and racist. Indeed, it was not until the early twentieth century, when racialized attitudes against fatness were already entrenched in the culture, that the medical establishment began its crusade against obesity. An important and original work, Fearing the Black Body argues convincingly that fat phobia isn’t about health at all, but rather a means of using the body to validate race, class, and gender prejudice.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2024)
650 0 _aAfrican American women
_xSocial conditions.
650 0 _aAfrican American women-Social conditions.
650 0 _aFeminine beauty (Aesthetics)
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aFeminine beauty (Aesthetics)-Social aspects-United States.
650 0 _aObesity
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aObesity-Social aspects-United States.
650 0 _aOverweight women
_zUnited States
_xSocial conditions.
650 0 _aOverweight women-United States-Social conditions.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
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653 _aAmerican exceptionalism.
653 _aAryan supremacy.
653 _aBritish history.
653 _aEnlightenment.
653 _aJohn Harvey Kellogg.
653 _aProtestantism.
653 _aPuritanism.
653 _aRenaissance art.
653 _abeauty.
653 _ablackness.
653 _abody mass index.
653 _adiets.
653 _aembodiment.
653 _aethnic studies.
653 _aeugenics.
653 _afat stigma.
653 _afat studies.
653 _ahealth disparities.
653 _ahistory of medicine.
653 _ahistory of science.
653 _aimmigration.
653 _aobesity.
653 _arace.
653 _aracism.
653 _aslavery.
653 _asociology of medicine.
653 _athin ideal.
653 _awhiteness.
653 _awomen’s history.
653 _awomen’s studies.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
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