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Chargement... Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soulpar Evette Dionne
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I hate it when I’m so disappointed in a book I had such high hopes for, but this unfortunately didn’t work for me. The essay flow bugged me because of so much reiteration, and I feel as though they were thrown in together at random. The author shares a lot and has some good things to say about anti-fat bias in our culture, but I was kind of shocked at her own fatphobia (that one chapter alone about her ex boyfriend was quite upsetting, and I’m still wondering if he knew any of it before it went to print). This had me going back and relistening to Aubrey Gordon’s book. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Biography & Autobiography.
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HTML: A poignant and ruthlessly honest journey through cultural expectations of size, race, and genderâ??and toward a brighter futureâ??from National Book Award nominee Evette Dionne My body has not betrayed me; it has continued rebounding against all odds. It is a body that others map their expectations on, but it has never let me down. In this insightful, funny, and whip-smart book, acclaimed writer Evette Dionne explores the minefields fat Black woman are forced to navigate in the course of everyday life. From her early experiences of harassment to adolescent self-discovery in internet chatrooms to diagnosis with heart failure at age twenty-nine, Dionne tracks her relationships with friendship, sex, motherhood, agoraphobia, health, pop culture, and self-image. Along the way, she lifts back the curtain to reveal the subtle, insidious forms of surveillance and control levied at fat women: At the doctor's office, where any health ailment is treated with a directive to lose weight. On dating sites, where larger bodies are rejected or fetishized. On TV, where fat characters are asexual comedic relief. But Dionne's unflinching account of our deeply held prejudices is matched by her fierce belief in the power of self-love. An unmissable portrait of a woman on a journey toward understanding our society and herself, Weightless holds up a mirror to the world we live in and asks us to imagine the future we deserve Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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