num_pages: 230
description: Fat prejudice is exploding in American society yet even social justice advocates tend to deny fat individuals protection because fat is seen as unhealthy and permanently changeable -- concepts supported by a great deal of societal belief and very little scientific evidence. Using bell hooks' ideology of domination Lonie McMichael explores the phenomena of fat prejudice -- from inception to resistance -- through a rhetorical lens. Looking at the actual experiences of fat people she argues that fat prejudice is neither acceptable nor tolerable in our society. Publisher's Weekly calls Acceptable Prejudice? a useful introduction to a burgeoning movement...will make readers question their attitudes about overweight people.
language: English
title: Acceptable Prejudice? Fat, Rhetoric and Social Justice
publisher: Pearlsong Press