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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Poulton, Terry. No fat chicks. Secaucus, N.J. : Carol Pub. Group, c1997 (OCoLC)664657047 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Terry Poulton |
| ISBN: | 1559724234 9781559724234 |
| OCLC Number: | 36876095 |
| Notes: | "A Birch Lane Press book." |
| Description: | vii, 273 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Discovering a billion-dollar brainwash -- The incredible shrinking woman -- A mountain of mendacity -- Crazy or what? -- Doctor feel-bads -- Hungry for work -- Life with laugh track -- Starved for affection -- Dumped by design -- Fed up -- Dying to be thin -- Belly-up? |
| Responsibility: | Terry Poulton. |
Abstract:
The author "traces the evolution of anti-fat ideology and of the businesses that profit from it. She shows how the glorification of emaciation serves the beauty, fitness, fashion, diet, food, and even the health-care industries, and how the media's vicious vilification of 'fat chicks' guarantees that women will frantically keep spending money on products that promise escape from the stigma."--Jacket.
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- Weight loss.
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