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]
Temas:
Discrimination against overweight persons > United States.
Racism in medicine > United States.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) > Social aspects > United States.
African American women > Social conditions.
Overweight women > United States > Social conditions.
Obesity > Social aspects > United States.
Obesity.
African Americans.
Obesity
African Americans
Female
Beauté féminine (Esthétique) > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Noires américaines > Conditions sociales.
Femmes en surpoids > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Obésité > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Obésité.
Noirs américains.
African American.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Racism in medicine.
Discrimination against overweight persons.
Obesity > Social aspects.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the original epidemic
  • Being Venus
  • Plump women and thin, fine men
  • The rise of the big black woman
  • Birth of the ascetic aesthetic
  • American beauty : the reign of the slender aesthetic
  • Thinness as American exceptionalism
  • Good health to uplift the race
  • Fat, revisited
  • Epilogue : the obesity epidemic

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