The Resource Fearing the black body : the racial origins of fat phobia, Sabrina Strings
Fearing the black body : the racial origins of fat phobia, Sabrina Strings
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The item Fearing the black body : the racial origins of fat phobia, Sabrina Strings represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.
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- Summary
- "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."--Amazon.com
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- vii, 283 pages
- Note
- Source of cataloging data: WCP
- Contents
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- Introduction : the original epidemic
- Being Venus
- Plump women and thin, fine men
- The rise of the big black woman
- Birth of the ascetic aesthetic
- American beauty : the reign of the slender aesthetic
- Thinness as American exceptionalism
- Good health to uplift the race
- Fat, revisited
- Epilogue : the obesity epidemic
- Isbn
- 9781479886753
- Label
- Fearing the black body : the racial origins of fat phobia
- Title
- Fearing the black body
- Title remainder
- the racial origins of fat phobia
- Statement of responsibility
- Sabrina Strings
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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."--Amazon.com
- Cataloging source
- LBSOR/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Strings, Sabrina
- Dewey number
- 305.48/896073
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HQ1220.U5
- LC item number
- S77 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
- African American women
- Overweight women
- Obesity
- Label
- Fearing the black body : the racial origins of fat phobia, Sabrina Strings
- Note
- Source of cataloging data: WCP
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction : the original epidemic -- Being Venus -- Plump women and thin, fine men -- The rise of the big black woman -- Birth of the ascetic aesthetic -- American beauty : the reign of the slender aesthetic -- Thinness as American exceptionalism -- Good health to uplift the race -- Fat, revisited -- Epilogue : the obesity epidemic
- Control code
- on1050457278
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- vii, 283 pages
- Isbn
- 9781479886753
- Lccn
- 2018026988
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1050457278
- Label
- Fearing the black body : the racial origins of fat phobia, Sabrina Strings
- Note
- Source of cataloging data: WCP
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction : the original epidemic -- Being Venus -- Plump women and thin, fine men -- The rise of the big black woman -- Birth of the ascetic aesthetic -- American beauty : the reign of the slender aesthetic -- Thinness as American exceptionalism -- Good health to uplift the race -- Fat, revisited -- Epilogue : the obesity epidemic
- Control code
- on1050457278
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- vii, 283 pages
- Isbn
- 9781479886753
- Lccn
- 2018026988
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1050457278
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