Kimberly Dark

Fat, Pretty, and Soon to Be Old

A Makeover for Self and Society

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Storyteller Dark takes on beauty privilege, size bias, and more with a perfect blend of humor and social analysis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: AK Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 132mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 204g
• ISBN-13: 9781849353670
• ISBN-10: 1849353670
• Artikelnr.: 57469101

Autorenporträt

Kimberly Dark is a writer, professor, and raconteur, working to reveal the hidden structure of everyday life one essay, poem, or story at a time. She has written award-winning plays, and taught and performed for a wide range of audiences in various countries over the past two decades. She is the author of The Daddies, Love and Errors, and co-editor of the anthology Ways of Being in Teaching.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Maintaining Appearances
2. Celebration
3. Another Way to Starve
4. Language, Fat and Causation
5. Diamond Jim
6. Wanted: Fat Girl
7. Dances With Light
8. Thighs and Freedom
9. Big People on the Airplane
10. Cozy or Uncomfortable: Tight Public Places
11. Here's Looking at You
12. Shadow on a Tightrope
13. Coming Out Fat
14. My First Lover Was Not a Lesbian
15. Becoming Travolta
16. Does This Limp Make Me Look Fat?
17. The Chance to Practice
18. The Aging Yoga Body
19. Migration Patterns
20. The Naked Place
21. Building the Good Body
22. Self-Help, Fitness and Feminism
23. How the Women's Movement Ruined Everything
24. Passing it On
25. Learning to Fish
Afterword by Linda Bacon, PhD, ("Exploring the Health Science in Fat,
Pretty and Soon to be Old")