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Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
Author
Sabrina Strings
Content
vii + 283 pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2019
Publisher
New York: New York University Press
Description
Covers the Renaissance to the 21st century and focuses on art, history, medicine, philosophy, and religion primarily in the United States.
Main subject
Sociology and Social Issues
ISBN
9781479819805 (cloth); 9781479886753 (pap.); 9781479831098 (ebook)
Citation
Strings, Sabrina.
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia.
New York: New York University Press, 2019. Sylvia. Accessed July 5, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL1044.
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10-07-2024
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Journal of American History
108.1 (2021): 154
Resources for Gender and Women's Studies: A Feminist Review
42.1–2 (2021): 8–9
Women's Review of Books,
Sept.–Oct. 2020, 22–23
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