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
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