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Author:
Kate Manne
Publisher:
Crown
Date:
January 9, 2024
For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day, the day she became a professor, the day her daughter was born. She's been bullied and belittled for her size, leading to extreme dieting. As a feminist philosopher, she wanted to believe that she was exempt from the cultural gaslighting that compels so many of us to ignore our hunger. But she was not. Blending stories with trenchant analysis, Manne shows why fatphobia has become a vital social justice issue.
What The Reviewers Say
...a breathtaking work of meticulous research, philosophical rigor, and personal anecdote.
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...a potent and unsettling piece of social philosophy – a broadside against fatphobia.
In this absurd, self-deluded book virtually immobile bodies are deemed as healthy as slim ones and obesity is no more linked with type 2 diabetes than, apparently, using mouthwash.
