Yet sadly, even among many of them, there’s a feeling that to justify the space they occupy in this world they must be perfect in every way: in perfect health, with prestigious high-paying careers and living in perfectly coiffured homes. Only a few fat women have dared to speak unapologetically about their lives. A fat woman’s story might be accepted when she confesses to her sins and embodies the guilt and flaws everyone believes she must harbor to explain her fatness. “Our culture has this feeling that only after fat people have ‘fixed’ themselves and conformed to thinness does what they say matter, let alone have credibility. “But it’s a story that has never been more critical for us to read. We can’t help but feel her same anger, disillusionment and anguish while trying to come to terms with being imperfect and different in a culture that glorifies impossibly narrow standards of beauty and health, especially for women. The raw honesty and emotions in Taking Up Space are uncomfortable, even painful, to read at times. “In what is best described as a private diary, she shares her journey of reexamining everything she, and every woman, has been told about being fat, and about health and beauty. “A reluctant warrior in a war she did not particularly want to fight, Pattie Thomas may, in fact, be one of its most powerful spokespersons. Kathleen LeBesco, author of Revolting Bodies: The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity, has called Taking Up Space “a road map through the minefield of the ‘war on obesity.'”įoreword by Paul Campos, author of The Obesity Myth (published in paperback as The Diet Myth). Thomas shares her own process and demonstrates how a sociologically examined life can be a source for personal growth. An extensive resource section challenges both the popular reader and the academic to further exploration. Through narrative text, poetry, essays, photos and drawings, Dr. Making her own life a case study, medical sociologist Pattie Thomas, Ph.D., with the help of her co-author and husband Carl Wilkerson, M.B.A., outlines how stigma limit and shape the life chances of all people and are supported within culture. Taking Up Space is a sociological memoir about being fat and the physical, emotional and economic costs of trying to pass for thin in a culture that stigmatizes fat people. | | (trade paperback & Kindle ) | The Book Depository ( FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE ) | Apple’s iTunes bookstore | Google Play Trade paperback | PDF ebook | EPUB ebook | Mobipocket/Kindle ebookīuy TAKING UP SPACE from your favorite online retailer Original trade paperback | ISBN: 9781597190022 | 388 pages | $25 | Adobe PDF & ePub ebook with updated January 2012 preface | ISBN: 9781597190527 | $9.99Ībout the authors | Library Request Form (PDF) Taking Up Space: How Eating Well & Exercising Regularly Changed My Lifeįoreword by Paul Campos, author of The Obesity Myth (published in paperback as The Diet Myth)
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