num_pages: 320
description: The definitive takedown of fatphobia drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research to expose how size discrimination harms everyone and how to combat itfrom the acclaimed author of Down Girl and EntitledFor as long as she can remember Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant 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 intimate stories with the trenchant analysis that has become her signature Manne shows why fatphobia has become a vital social justice issue. Over the last several decades implicit bias has waned in every category from race to sexual orientation except body size. Manne examines how anti-fatness operateshow it leads us to make devastating assumptions about a persons attractiveness fortitude and intellect and how it intersects with other systems of oppression. Fatphobia is responsible for wage gaps medical neglect and poor educational outcomes; it is a straitjacket restricting our freedom our movement our potential.In this urgent call to action Manne proposes a new politics of body reflexivitya radical reevaluation of who our bodies exist in the world ourselves and no one else. When it comes to fatphobia the solution is not to love our bodies more. Instead we must dismantle the forces that control and constrain us and remake the world to accommodate people of every size.
language: English
title: Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
publisher: Crown