{"product_id":"the-senseless-handling-of-fat-people-paperback","title":"The Senseless Handling of Fat People - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusanne Brandheim\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery other fat woman feels defeated after meeting a doctor. At the same time, more and more girls in the Western world are starting to diet hard before the age of 14. There is a prevailing ideology that makes us all \"want\" to be thin. We have been thoroughly conditioned to believe that fatness is a result of personal weakness and immoral behavior, and our caring institutions have acted as moralizing gatekeepers of this inhuman myth. What if all interventions against the so-called obesity epidemic are not only futile but counterproductive and even harmful both to fat people and society as a whole?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The Senseless Handling of Fat People\" is a critical endeavor into the attitudes and ideas behind the launch of an obesity epidemic, a launch that, in turn, has resulted in a worldwide systemic stigmatization of fat people. The book explores the societal drivers that maintain and reinforce the contempt for fat people. It shows that there really are political, social, market-based and medical forces that benefit from your self-contempt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 18, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42733865828415,"sku":"9781917238441","price":34.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/ee51b722aa9a33c3ab3186c3f67e46b1.webp?v=1765137739","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-senseless-handling-of-fat-people-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}