Taking Up Space - Softcover

Thomas, Pattie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1597190020 ISBN 13: 9781597190022

Publisher: Pearlsong Press, 2005

Synopsis

Taking Up Space is a sociological memoir about being fat and the physical, emotional and economic costs of trying to pass for thin in a culture that stigmatizes fat people. Making her own life a case study, medical sociologist Pattie Thomas, Ph.D., with the help of her co-author and husband Carl Wilkerson, M.B.A., outlines how stigma limit and shape the life chances of all people and are supported within culture. Through narrative text, poetry, essays, photos and drawings, Dr. Thomas shares her own process and demonstrates how a sociologically examined life can be a source for personal growth. An extensive resource section challenges both the popular reader and the academic to further exploration. Kathleen LeBesco, author of Revolting Bodies: The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity, has called Taking Up Space "a road map through the minefield of the 'war on obesity.'" Foreword by Paul Campos, author of The Obesity Myth (published in paperback as The Diet Myth).

About this title

Product Description:

Taking Up Space Through narrative text, poetry, essays, photos and drawings, this sociological memoir is about being fat and the physical, emotional and economic costs of trying to pass for thin in a culture that stigmatizes fat people.

About the Author:

A professor of law at the University of Colorado and a nationally recognized expert on Americas war on fat, Paul Campos is the author of a weekly opinion column that appears in more than forty newspapers nationwide. His articles have appeared in "The New Republic," "The Wall Street Journal," the "Los Angeles Times," "USA Today," the "San Francisco Chronicle," and "The Boston Globe,"

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearlsong Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1597190020
• ISBN 13: 9781597190022
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 388