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Author Gordon, Aubrey, author.

Title "You just need to lose weight" : and 19 other myths about fat people / Aubrey Gordon.

Publication Info. Boston : Beacon Press, [2023]
©2023.

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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  616.398 GORDON    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  616.398 GORDON    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  616.3980 GORDON    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult New Materials  616.3 GORDON    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  616.398 GORDON    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  616.398 GORDON    Check Shelf
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Description xxiii, 205 pages ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-205).
Contents Introduction -- "Being fat is a choice" -- "But what about your health?" -- "Fat acceptance glorifies obesity" -- "Fat people should..."
Summary "The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the facts to debunk common anti-fat myths and with tools to take action for fat justice"-- Provided by publisher.
The pushback that shows up in conversations about fat justice takes exceedingly predicable form. Losing weight is easy--calories in, calories out. Fat people are unhealthy. We're in the midst of an obesity epidemic. Fat acceptance "glorifies obesity." The BMI is an objective measure of size and health. Yet, these myths are as readily debunked as they are pervasive. In "You Just Need to Lose Weight," Aubrey Gordon equips readers with the facts and figures to reframe myths about fatness in order to dismantle the anti-fat bias ingrained in how we think about and treat fat people. Bringing her dozen years of community organizing and training to bear, Gordon shares the rhetorical approaches she and other organizers employ to not only counter these pernicious myths, but to dismantle the anti-fat bias that so often underpin them.
Subject Fat-acceptance movement.
Discrimination against overweight persons -- United States.
Obesity -- Social aspects -- United States.
Overweight persons -- United States -- Social conditions.
Discrimination against overweight persons. (OCoLC)fst00895018
Obesity -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01042759
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Added Title And 19 other myths about fat people
and nineteen other myths about fat people
Other Form: Online version: Gordon, Aubrey. "You just need to lose weight" Boston : Beacon Press, [2023] 9780807006481 (DLC) 2022043204
ISBN 9780807006474 (trade paperback)
0807006475 (trade paperback)
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