"You just need to lose weight" : and 19 other myths about fat people

The Resource "You just need to lose weight" : and 19 other myths about fat people
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"You just need to lose weight" : and 19 other myths about fat people
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and 19 other myths about fat people
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Aubrey Gordon
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  • And 19 other myths about fat people
  • and nineteen other myths about fat people
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eng
Summary
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
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616.3/98
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no index present
LC call number
RC628
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.G6743 2023
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non fiction
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bibliography
Target audience
adult

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