Fat Is A Feminist Issue

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It rejected the societal standards that woman’s social value was determined by how attractive she was for the men in their lives.

The psychoanalysis applied seems to have little to support it except that, in some circumstances, the women who attended Orbach’s support groups and followed her instructions got better. Disclaimer: It bothers me that I’m posting a review of this kind of book in January, when I know that the diet industry is at it’s most insidious and disgusting. The 1970s saw the rise of women’s magazines and the popularisation of make-up and cosmetic activities. And that was way before social media and the beauty bloggers with their, yes, millions of followers, would begin to reap money as daily beauty labour got instituted in a way that before then perhaps only a Hollywood makeup artist would recognise.This includes the rise of social media and the myriad of images of sleek, sexy and slim women accessible in every aspect of a woman’s life.

The Thin Woman: Feminism, Post-structuralism and the Social Psychology of Anorexia Nervosa (Women and Psychology), Routledge, 1997. In Understanding Women, Orbach and Eichenbaum theorise women's psychology from the perspective of their work at the Women's Therapy Centre and introduce the concept of 'the little girl inside'. Maybe something about the industries that have built up around diet, fitness and cosmetics and the ways in which these industries target their products at women.Beth Ditto, frontwoman for the punk band The Gossip, attained celebrity status in the mid-2000s with the popularity of her band's 2006 album Standing in the Way of Control, which also helped raise awareness for the movement. Exclusion based upon gender has also been expressed, as critics state that the movements overlook how masculinity is tied to body size and men are infrequently represented. This again intersects with feminisms of color when assessing the quality and quantity of visibility for women of color, especially fat women of color, in mainstream media. Weight Watchers, Nutrisystem, DetoxTea, and surgical weight loss options, are all tailored towards losing weight, and such ideas are what fat feminists and body-positive activists resist.

I then remained a consistent 8 stone for 20 years with zero anxt, it became absorbed into my subconscious. Women are constantly reminded by every billboard, tube poster and Instagram feed that society, and again men, prefer slimness over fatness. This reinforces fat phobia by targeting marginalized bodies, meaning fatphobia and homophobia are uniquely intertwined. This is much like the dieting industry, built to help people overweight become "normal" which in Western society, the goal is to be thin or curvy, not fat. But while we are aware of the many efforts we make to look good, exercise, and eat well, the underlying questions about why and how we have come to be so concerned about our bodies is just taken as a given we all accede to.

I should point out that this Kindle edition actually contains Volume I and Volume II, the latter of which was released several years after the first volume and contains some structured exercises for readers who are compulsive eaters.