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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Strings, Sabrina, author.     Subjects     Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- Social aspects -- United States.     African American women -- Social conditions.     Overweight women -- United States -- Social conditions.     Obesity -- Social aspects -- United States.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Strings, Sabrina, author.       by title:      Fearing the black bo...         MARC Display

Fearing the black body : the racial origins of fat phobia / Sabrina Strings. by Strings, Sabrina, author. New York : New York University Press, [2019] Subjects Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- Social aspects -- United States.   African American women -- Social conditions.   Overweight women -- United States -- Social conditions.   Obesity -- Social aspects -- United States. ISBN:  9781479886753 (paperback) 1479886750 (paperback) 9781479819805 (hardcover) 1479819808 (hardcover) Description:  vii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm 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. Requests:  1 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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Aina Haina Public Library Adult Nonfiction 305.48896 St Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 305.48896 St Transit Request Add Copy to MyList

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