Big : stories about life in plus-sized bodies

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Label

Big : stories about life in plus-sized bodies

Title remainder

stories about life in plus-sized bodies

Statement of responsibility

edited by Christina Myers

Title variation

Stories about life in plus-sized bodies

Contributor

• Myers, Christina

Subject

• Body image
• Overweight persons
• Overweight women

Language

eng

Summary

Pop culture stereotypes, shopping frustrations, fat jokes, and misconceptions about health are all ways society systemically rejects large bodies. BIG is a collection of personal and intimate experiences of plus size women, non-binary and trans people in a society obsessed with thinness. Revealing insights that are both funny and traumatic, surprising and challenging, familiar and unexpected, 26 writers explore themes as diverse as self perception, body image, fashion, fat activism, food, sexuality, diet culture, motherhood and more. These stories offer a closer look at what it means to navigate a world designed to fit bodies of a certain size (sometimes literally) and, in turn, invites readers to ask questions about{u2014}and ultimately reconsider{u2014}our collective and individual obsession with women{u2019}s bodies. Contributors include Dr. Rohini Bannerjee, Amanda Scriver, Cassie Stocks, Jo Jefferson, Layla Cameron, Rabbit Richards, Sonja Boon, Simone Blais, Tracy Manrell and other writers from across Canada, the US, and the UK

Cataloging source

NLC

Index

no index present

Literary form

essays

Target audience

adult