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Body Positivity/Lookismus
Aufstand der widerspenstigen Körper
„In fünf Schritten zur Schönheitsrevolution: Die Zukunft ist widerspenstig!“Dicke, haarige, queere, alternde Körper, People of Colour, Menschen mit Behinderung: Wer in unserer Gesellschaft nicht der Norm entspricht, wer sich und seinen Körper nicht dem kommerzialisierten Zwang zur Selbstoptimierung unterwirft, wird marginalisiert, ....
Autor_innen: Lechner, Elisabeth
Erfahrungsberichte im Zeitalter der Haarlosigkeit
Körperhaare an Frauen* werden heutzutage unsichtbar gemacht. Als würden sie nicht existieren. Auf das Bild eines haarlosen Frauen*körpers ist Verlass, es begegnet uns überall – sei es auf der Straße, am Strand, beim Sport, in Filmen oder in Werbebotschaften. Glatte Haut wird vorausgesetzt und eine Alternative scheint es nicht zu geben, ....
Autor_innen: Paul, Anna C.
Every day, women around the world are confronted with a dilemma – how to look. In a society embroiled in a cult of female beauty and youthfulness, pressure on women to conform physically is constant and all-pervading. In this iconic, gripping and frank exposé, Naomi Wolf exposes the tyranny of the beauty myth through the ages and its ....
Autor_innen: Wolf, Naomi
The Power of Radical Self-Love
Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Systems of oppression thrive off our inability to make peace with difference and injure the relationship we have with our own bodies.The Body Is Not an Apology offers radical self-love as the balm to heal the wounds inflicted by these violent ....
Autor_innen: Taylor, Sonya Renee
Despite the West's privileging of slenderness as an aesthetic ideal, the African Diaspora has historically displayed a resistance to the Western European and North American indulgence in 'fat anxiety.' The Embodiment of Disobedience explores the ways in which the African Diaspora has rejected the West's efforts to impose imperatives of ....
Autor_innen: Shaw, Andrea Elizabeth
We have all seen the segments on television news shows: A fat person walking on the sidewalk, her face out of frame so she can't be identified, as some disconcerting findings about the "obesity epidemic" stalking the nation are read by a disembodied voice. And we have seen the movies—their obvious lack of large leading actors silently ....
Autor_innen: Rothblum, Esther; Solocay, Sondra (Hg.)
A Celebration of the Fat & Fierce
Chubby. Curvy. Fluffy. Plus-size. Thick. Fat.The time has come for fat people to tell their own stories. The (Other) F Word combines the voices of Reneée Watson, Julie Murphy, Jes Baker, Samantha Irby, Bruce Sturgell, and more in a relatable and gift-worthy guide about body image and fat acceptance. This dazzling collection of art, ....
Autor_innen: Manfredi, Angie (Hg.)
Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color
Every day we see movies, magazines, and social media that make us feel like we need to change how we look. This takes a toll on how we think about ourselves—and how we allow others to treat us. And while many teens feel shame about their body, being a teen girl of color can be hard in unique ways. Maybe you feel alienated by the ....
Autor_innen: Tovar, Virgie
In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom--award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed--is unapologetically "thick" deemed "thick where I should have been thin, more where I should have been less," McMillan Cottom refuses to shy away from blending the personal with the ....
Autor_innen: McMillan Cottom, Tressie
Die intellektuelle Ikone Susan Sontag über Gleichheit, weibliches Altern, Schönheit und Sexualität. Was bedeutet es, eine Frau zu sein? Der neue Essayband von Susan Sontag stellt genau diese Frage. Erstmals versammelt ein Buch ihre wichtigsten Texte zu ästhetischen, politischen und ökonomischen Aspekten des Frauseins. Sontag schreibt über ....
Autor_innen: Sontag, Susan
How to Fight Fatphobia
For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day, the day she became a professor, the day her daughter was born. She's been bullied and belittled for her size, leading to extreme dieting. As a feminist philosopher, she wanted to believe ....
Autor_innen: Manne, Kate
Anti-fatness is everywhere. In "What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat", Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have led to people being denied basic needs because they are fat and calls for social justice movements to be inclusive of plus-sized people’s experiences. Unlike the recent wave of ....
Autor_innen: Gordon, Aubrey
