Virgie Tovar

You Have the Right to Remain Fat (eBook, ePUB)

A Manifesto

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A scathing attack on diet culture, fatphobia and ingrained sexism from bold author, activist and body image expert Virgie Tovar.

Growing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt, she was over it-and gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again. Ever since, she's been helping others to do the same.

Tovar is hungry for a world where bodies are valued equally, food is free from moral judgment, and you can jiggle through life with respect. In concise and candid language, she delves into unlearning fatphobia, dismantling sexist notions of fashion, and rejecting diet culture's greatest lie: that fat people need to wait before beginning their best lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Melville House UK
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781911545170
• Artikelnr.: 55001598

Autorenporträt

Virgie Tovar is an author, activist and one of America's leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She is the founder of Babecamp, started the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight, and edited the groundbreaking anthology Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion. Virgie has been featured by the New York Times, MTV, Al Jazeera, NPR, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Huffington Post, Cosmopolitan, and BUST.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. What Are Fatphobia and Diet Culture?
3. Restriction Doesn't Work-It's Not You
4. Dieting: Family, Assimilation, and Bootstrapping
5. Dieting is a Survival Technique
6. Internalized Inferiority and Sexism
7. Bros <3 Thinness: Heteromasculinity and Whiteness
8. Fatphobia is the New Language of Classism and Racism
9. What Early Fat Activism Taught Me
10. In the Future, I'm Fat
11. I Want Freedom
12. You Have the Right to Remain Fat
13. Acknowledgements