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No fat chicks : how big business profits by making women hate their bodies--and how to fight back
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No fat chicks : how big business profits by making women hate their bodies--and how to fight back

Author: Terry Poulton
Publisher: Secaucus, N.J. : Carol Pub. Group, ©1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Poulton, Terry.
No fat chicks.
Secaucus, N.J. : Carol Pub. Group, c1997
(OCoLC)664657047
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.

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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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