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THE ORIGINAL ANTI-DIET BOOK IS BACK - in one volume together with its best-selling sequel. When it was first published, Fat Is A Feminist Issuebecame an instant classic and it is as relevant today as it was then. Updated throughout, it includes a frank new introduction by Susie Orbach that brings this book to a new generation of readers whilst offering a current perspective for its original fans. With an increasingly dominant diet industry, costing the consumer millions of pounds each year, show more Susie Orbach's best-selling classic is as important as ever in helping women to love their own body and face the demands of 21st-century living with confidence. show lessTags
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Being fat isn't all about the negatives. There are psychological advantages to being fat that can be successful (or not so successful) coping strategies for different issues. If you do not come up with different coping strategies, then if you lose the weight you'll have lost your only coping strategy and will very likely regain the weight in order to deal with things.
I'm surprised it's not more widely read and cited.
I'm surprised it's not more widely read and cited.
While I struggled with some of the ideas in this book, overall I thought it was well written with worthy content. I thought the exercises given for journalling and talking it out were especially good.
some very interesting points about the why and how of weight issues. Worth a read even if you discard half the ideas.
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Susie Orbach is a cofounder of the Women's Therapy Centre in London and a visiting professor at the London School of Economics. She is also a cofounder of the Women's Therapy Centre Institute in New York. Orbach lives in London with her partner and two children
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- Original publication date
- 1978
- First words
- In classrooms around the world girls swap tips on how to eat less, how to ratchet up their exercise and how to mimic those perfect bodies they see staring out at them from music videos, TV soaps, the catwalk, magazines and bi... (show all)llboards.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)At the same time, we need to question our social practices so that the next generation of girls and women will not suffer from such disabling and distressing feelings about their bodies and their food.
- Blurbers
- Wolf, Naomi; Faludi, Susan
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- Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 616.3 — Applied science & technology Medicine & health Diseases, Allergies, Skin Conditions Diseases of the digestive system
- LCC
- RC552 .O25 .O7 — Medicine Internal medicine Internal medicine Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry Psychiatry Psychopathology Neuroses
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- 422
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- (3.57)
- Languages
- 5 — Danish, Dutch, English, German, Italian
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 20
- ASINs
- 11
