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Is fat a feminist issue? Accepting your body is a selective exercise for some
When I first tried to read Susie Orbach’s 1978 bestseller, Fat Is A Feminist Issue, I was fat. This is not an exaggeration: some people told me this to my face, with a directness I would never have…
The disorientation that came with inhabiting a body which I felt was definitely not mine — with being “an anorexic, but trapped in a fat suit” as Nancy Tucker describes it — only made me eat more. In this, she echoes Clare Chambers, who puts forth “the principle of the unmodified body” which “tells us that social-norm change is better than surgery, ethically speaking, even if it is more difficult”. What else might we describe as “a misguided ideology, or a set of false beliefs and inflated theories, that our culture holds about fat [or female?]
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