Shadow on a Tightrope: Writings by Women on Fat Oppression

Posted on by

Still a fine collection of articles, personal stories, and poems by fat women, about their lives and the fat hating society in which we all live Shadow does it all It may be the most important work of feminist theory published this year Lammas Review Download Shadow on a Tightrope: Writings by Women on Fat Oppression by Lisa Schoenfielder – kino-fada.fr This book was the seed that was planted which, when it grew up, started the Big Beautiful Woman Movement This is a powerful book, and I consider it a good read for anyone who suffers from fat oppression, which means, anyone who is overweight One cannot be fat in American Culture without being ridiculed, comm...This anthology focuses on women s lived experience of being fat in U.S society It is the first published anthology of its kind and it was released in 1982, but some of the earlier article were originally written in the early 1970s This anthology includes poems, essays, interviews and personal stories on fatness I wanted to give the above context to explain the perspectives that the entries are written from It is second wave feminist So the fat activists are challenging society in general This anthology focuses on women s lived experience of being fat in U.S society It is the first published anthology of its kind and it was released in 1982, but some of...Strong ratio of good bad for an anthology A lot of what s asserted here, and backed up by evidence in 86, is way MORE well supported now even though things have not substantively improved at all in an awful lot of ways still I get that they wanted a range of voices but tbh given that there was nothing else like it then and still nothing like it now, i wish there had beenfocus on a clear message and that contributors had been challenged on stuff they said that didn t match the Strong ratio of good bad for an anthology A lot of what s asserted here, and backed up by evidence in 86, is way MORE well supported now even though things have not substantively improved at all in an awful l...These are stories that are sad, but need to be heard.This anthology is still relevant, 30 years later.pity there aren tbooks like thisAnother book that saved my life

Shadow on a Tightrope: Writings by Women on Fat Oppression
  • English
  • 25 September 2019
  • Paperback
  • 260 pages
  • 1879960249
  • Lisa Schoenfielder
  • Shadow on a Tightrope: Writings by Women on Fat Oppression