Format:
Book
Author:
Baker, Jes, author.
Title:
Landwhale : on turning insults into nicknames, why body image is hard, and how diets can kiss my ass / Jes Baker.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Seal Press, [2018]
©2018
Description:
xii, 253 pages ; 21 cm
Summary:
"In Landwhale, Jes Baker delves into her coming-of-age--including her 6 ways to hate your body (#2: Worship teen periodicals), her top tactics for reframing the malicious animal comparisons hurled repeatedly at fat women (see "Elephant: Everyone knows elephants are basically the coolest animals ever. Try again."), and as a bonus, Jes answers the Internet's most pressing question of all time: "So, have you ever thought about dieting?" With biting wit and arresting vulnerability, Baker also covers living with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and feeling like a hobbit, fat sex, Harry Potter roller coasters, the problematic effects of online heroism, and the complicated conversation around weight-loss surgery. For anyone who grew up as a fat kid (or didn't, for that matter), who has traveled while fat, or who has simply lived in a fat body, Landwhale is a truthful and powerful account of the unforgiving ways our culture treats fatness--and how to live happily and freely anyway."--Page [4] of cover.
Subjects:
Baker, Jes -- Health.
Overweight persons -- Biography.
Overweight women -- Biography.
Overweight persons -- Biography.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Contents:
This was all just a big mistake -- 6 ways to hate your body -- I was a fat kid -- I wasn't actually a fat kid -- The fat cowgirl position -- Landwhale -- Things I thought I couldn't do but then did -- HAES, hot mics, and other things I learned about the hard way -- I've never owned a body -- Sick -- Safety scares the shit out of me -- Three vaginas -- So, have you ever thought about dieting? -- Maybe I'm a hobbit? -- In praise of loud and fat women -- David and Goliath -- The pros and cons of being fat -- American billboard -- The bulletproof entity -- 6 ways to love your body.
LCCN:
2017049668
ISBN:
9781580056816 (paperback ; alk. paper)
1580056814 (paperback ; alk. paper)
* 9781580056823 (ebook)
Other Number:
993420130
System Availability:
1
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
3605943
Call Number:
362.1963/980092 B
Course Reserves:
0
# System items in:
1