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Discrimination against overweight persons --- Body image

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« La grossophobie est une discrimination à la fois systémique et privée, elle vous colle à la semelle pour ne plus vous lâcher. Elle s’organise dans les rouages de nos systèmes éducatifs, dans nos décisions de santé publique, dans l’égalité de l’accès aux soins, elle nourrit les appétits capitalistes des géants industriels à hauteur de milliards d’euros chaque année. Elle se cache dans les placards cadenassés des cuisines familiales des adolescents désignés comme gourmands, elle se mêle aux violences sexistes et sexuelles, elle se tisse dans les mailles des vêtements introuvables passé une certaine taille. »Dans cet ouvrage, l’écrivaine et militante féministe Daria Marx s’attaque au sujet de la grossophobie qu’elle a contribué à faire émerger. En dix questions, elle revient sur les origines de la discrimination des gros·ses, sur l’illusion de la révolution body-positive et sur les grandes figures de la lutte contre la grossophobie. Plusieurs chapitres abordent la question médicale, qui est centrale, notamment l’accès aux soins et le business juteux de l’amaigrissement.

Discrimination against overweight persons --- Body image --- Obesity --- Overweight persons

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Author Interview on The Brian Lehrer Show. America is a weight-obsessed nation. Over the last decade, there's been an explosion of concern in the U.S. about people getting fatter. Plaintiffs are now filing lawsuits arguing that discrimination against fat people should be illegal. Fat Rights asks the first provocative questions that need to be raised about adding weight to lists of currently protected traits like race, gender, and disability. Is body fat an indicator of a character flaw or of incompetence on the job? Does it pose risks or costs to employers they should be allowed to evade? Or i

Law --- Discrimination against overweight persons --- Overweight persons --- Discrimination --- Law and legislation --- Civil rights --- Social aspects

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Body stories capture a nuanced, interconnected, interactive and complex telling of our understanding, perception and experience of and through our bodies. Plenty has been published on body image but image suggests a static fixed body unmitigated through our social interactions and varying times and spaces. This book is not a "how-to" guide for fat confidence. It's not a compendium of fat suffering. It's simply a collection of narratives about what it's like to survive in a weight-hating world. It resists the ways that marginalized bodies are being written and researched and put into other people's ideas about our existence.The stories in this book are celebratory and are painful. They look at intersections of race and queerness; they destabilize womanhood by presenting a range of possible female embodiments. They explore issues of disability and madness. The full range of possibilities that are collected here give a picture of what it means to live in a society with strong and powerful messages about size, about normalcy, about what a moral and healthy life and body look like.This book is a snapshot of its place and time, but these stories remind us that we're here to stay. The body stories will change but we will keep owning our own narratives. While story, especially written by women, is often seen as outside the academic canon, these stories, these creative offerings, are theory, are research, and are activism. They are nothing less than the blueprint for liberation. Writing about fat and about bodies outside of medicalized narratives, without ignoring the impact of race, sexuality, class, ability, gender, fashion, appearance and beyond, is radical and rigorous.It is impossible to think about the future without wishing for liberation. Liberation can come in many forms. It can mean an awareness, the ability to confront. The stories in this book display the ways that liberation isn't a finish line or a thing we can complete--rather it is a million small actions and understandings in aid of a renewed and hopeful world.

Body image in women. --- Body image. --- Overweight women. --- Overweight persons. --- Overweight women --- Overweight persons --- Discrimination against overweight women. --- Discrimination against overweight persons. --- Obesity --- Psychology. --- Psychology. --- Psychological aspects.

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Fighting Fat is a comprehensive study of approaches to obesity from 1920 to 1980 in Canada. It examines the health professions use of the word 'obesity', how it was measured, its causes, and treatments. It examines popular cultures view of the obese and its effect on those who were fat.

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