Bibliograph

You have the right to remain fat, Virgie Tovar

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Label

You have the right to remain fat, Virgie Tovar

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-125)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

You have the right to remain fat

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1007749915

Responsibility statement

Virgie Tovar

Summary

Growing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt, she was over it--and gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again. Ever since, she's been helping others to do the same. Tovar is hungry for a world where bodies are valued equally, food is free from moral judgment, and you can jiggle through life with respect. In concise and candid language, she delves into unlearning fatphobia, dismantling sexist notions of fashion, and how to reject diet culture's greatest lie: that fat people need to wait before beginning their best lives. -- Amazon.com

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- What are fatphobia and diet culture? -- Restriction doesn't work: it's not you -- Dieting: family, assimilation, and bootstrapping -- Dieting is a survival technique -- Internalized inferiority and sexism -- Bros [heart] thinness: heteromasculinity and whiteness -- Fatphobia is the new language of classism and racism -- What early fat activism taught me -- In the future, I'm fat -- I want freedom -- You have the right to remain fat

Target audience

adult

Classification