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Fearing the black body : the racial origins of fat phobia /

"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 hun...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Strings, Sabrina (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 0 |t Introduction : the original epidemic --  |t Being Venus --  |t Plump women and thin, fine men --  |t The rise of the big black woman --  |t Birth of the ascetic aesthetic --  |t American beauty : the reign of the slender aesthetic --  |t Thinness as American exceptionalism --  |t Good health to uplift the race --  |t Fat, revisited --  |t Epilogue : the obesity epidemic 
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