It's Always Been Ours
Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies
New York : Hachette Go, 2023.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: vii, 269 pages ; 24 cm
A dietitian, storyteller, and community organizer offers a cultural discussion of body image, food, health and wellness by focusing on the bodies of Black women and how our culture's obsession with thin, white women reinforces racist ideas and ideals.
Contents:
Introduction: Breathe beauty -- Part 1: "Live, laugh, love". It isn't diet culture, it's white supremacy -- Special aliens who can heal the world!: resilience -- "For our own good": respectability -- Too much, yet not enough: restriction -- Part 2: "Solutions": having a body is hard. Feeling good as hell: body toxicity -- Can we eat our way to liberation? -- Health is killing us -- Gooped, but not well -- Part 3: A new story. Rewriting the narrative -- Celebrating black joy.
Subjects:
African American women -- Health and hygiene.
Body image in women -- Social aspects.
Eating disorders in women.
African American women -- Health and hygiene.
Body image in women -- Social aspects.
Eating disorders in women.
ISBN:
9780306827693
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HEALTH Women Wil | Ballentine Indoors | New, Nonfiction | In |
HEALTH Women Wil | Lower Richland | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-257) and index.