Displaying 1 of 1 2019 Format: Book Author: Strings, Sabrina, author. Title: Fearing the black body : the racial origins of fat phobia / Sabrina Strings. Publisher, Date: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2019] 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. Description: vii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Summary: "String's "Fearing the Black Body" critically examines the concepts of fat phobia and race"-- Provided by publisher. Subjects: Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- Social aspects -- United States. African American women -- Social conditions. Overweight women -- United States -- Social conditions. Obesity -- Social aspects -- United States. Obesity. African Americans. Female. African American women -- Social conditions. Obesity -- Social aspects. LCCN: 2018026988 ISBN: 9781479819805 (cl : alk. paper) 1479819808 (cl : alk. paper) 9781479886753 (pb : alk. paper) 1479886750 (pb : alk. paper) 9781479886753 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 Control Number: 3418098 Course Reserves: 0 Place Request Add to My List Share Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Large Cover Image Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1
