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03334aam a2200481 i 4500 001 02C36FAE9C8F11E981649E3E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190702010117 008 180809s2019 nyua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018026988 020 $a 1479819808 020 $a 9781479819805 020 $a 1479886750 020 $a 9781479886753 035 $a (OCoLC)1050457278 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d BDX $d ERASA $d KSA $d JQW $d OHS $d YDX $d GZM $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HQ1220 U5 S77 2019 100 1 $a Strings, Sabrina $e author. 245 10 $a Fearing the black body : $b the racial origins of fat phobia / $c Sabrina Strings. 246 30 $a Racial origins of fat phobia 264 1 $a New York : $b New York University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a vii, 283 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "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 hundred years ago. Strings weaves together an eye-opening historical narrative ranging from the Renaissance to the current moment, analyzing important works of art, newspaper and magazine articles, and scientific literature and medical journals--where fat bodies were once praised--showing that fat phobia, as it relates to black women, did not originate with medical findings, but with the Enlightenment era belief that fatness was evidence of "savagery" and racial inferiority. The author argues that the contemporary ideal of slenderness is, at its very core, racialized and racist. Indeed, it was not until the early twentieth century, when racialized attitudes against fatness were already entrenched in the culture, that the medical establishment began its crusade against obesity. An important and original work, Fearing the Black Body argues convincingly that fat phobia isn't about health at all, but rather a means of using the body to validate race, class, and gender prejudice."--Amazon.com. 505 0 $a 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. 650 0 $a Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) $x Social aspects $z United States. 650 0 $a African American women $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Overweight women $z United States $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Obesity $x Social aspects $z United States. 941 $a 9 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214043136.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20231205013139.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231021013043.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909053614.0 952 $l XAPE737 $d 20200908011747.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20200730010302.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20200208014255.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20191105015645.0 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20191026010159.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=02C36FAE9C8F11E981649E3E97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search