Monday, July 8, 2019: Whose Image Is Our Body Image? - Part 1

This week on Women's Magazine we explore the racial, cultural, economic and emotional roots of our obsession with thin bodies.

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Sabrina Strings, professor of Sociology at University of California, Irvine (and UC Berkeley alum), in her book Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, brings a new lens to an old problem. Tracing the history of western body ideals through art, literature, religious, popular cultural and medical teachings, Strings argues persuasively that the current crusade against obesity is not about health, but rather a means of using the body to validate race, class, and gender prejudice.

"The obesity science is a pseudo-science..." -Sabrina Strings

Click here to listen to the entire show. 59:58 min (There is a break in the recording at 44:46 that lasts about 45 seconds.)

Also on today's show:
Shani Raviv

Monday, June 13, 2016: Love Your Fat & Let It All Hang Out

Monday on KPFA Women's Magazine, we listen to an interview with Sarai Walker, author of the fabulous radical feminist novel, Dietland.  Walker's novel, one of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 of 2015, draws on her Ph.D. research focused on normative femininity of the body; the fat female body; consciousness-raising and the ‘personal is political’ in feminist practice and as a literary aesthetic; and critical theory, particularly Michel Foucault.  Don't miss this great interview by Meghan Murphy of Feminist Current, produced by Women's International News Gathering Service.

Click here to listen to the interview with Sarai Walker. 28:44 min

"We're Fat! We're Mean! We don't eat lean quizine!"

Next Kate Raphael talks with long-time feminist fat activist Deeg Gold about fat dyke activism in the seventies, eighties and nineties, including Let It All Hang Out Day in 1989 and 1990 in San Francisco.

"It kind of isn't healthy to discriminate against people."

Listen now to the interview with Deeg Gold or Get MP3. 11:32 min






Click here to listen to the entire show. 59:50 min

Also on today's show:
Previewing the Black Queer Arts Festival
Women's Community Calendar