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Fat studies is an area of academic scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. The fat studies list contains academic works on this topic and books that seek to create social change around weight oppression. Books that promote of the goal of weight loss are on a different topic.

Fat Studies Books

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
The Fat Studies Reader
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
Bodies out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression
Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body
What's Wrong with Fat?
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
FAT!SO? : Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size
Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement
The Obesity Myth: Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health
Revolting Bodies?: The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity
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Quotes Tagged “Fat Studies”

Geoffrey Miller
“ Our sense of beauty was shaped by evolution to embody awareness of what is difficult as opposed to easy, rare as opposed to common, costly as opposed to cheap, skillful as opposed to talentless, and fit as opposed to unfit. ”
― Geoffrey Miller, The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
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“ The evolved preference for sugary and fatty foods (a functional mechanism) may lead to obesity because of a mismatch with modern nutrition (a maladaptive outcome), which in turn increases the risk of heart failure (a harmful dysfunction). ”
― Marco del Giudice, Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
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