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The Perils of 'Fat Acceptance': density-as-destiny and other myths.(Culture Watch)
ON my office wall hangs a framed New Yorker cartoon of a map of the United States that labels the entire country "Too Fat," save for the dot designating Los Angeles as "Too Skinny." I chose it as a parody both of the field in which I work--health and nutrition--and of the area in which I live: Malibu, California. Camryn Manheim, author of Wake Up, I'm Fat!, described Southern California as a place "where people shop for groceries in bikinis." What for fat people are "the two most terrifying things in the world, shopping for food and being practically naked, these sun-soaked creatures do simultaneously."
Which is why I thought this Land of the Lean a curious ...
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...the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) that the seats in the theater...been fighting discrimination that fat people face in employment, health...basis of size. ``At the moment, fat people who are being discriminated...
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...National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance plan to hand out a ``bill of...each year because of fat. The fat-acceptance movement has struggled for attention...National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance. The group now has 5,000 members...
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...Saguy & Riley, 2005), and fat acceptance (e.g., Howells, 1993; LeBesco...National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance in the United States has reclaimed...Related to the discussion of fat acceptance is the phenomenon of "fat admiration...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Campbell, Douglas A. July 28, 1997 700+ words
...National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance at the Cherry Hill Hilton. There...largest membership group in the fat-acceptance movement, said Richard Stimson...archive of the history of the fat-acceptance movement. Conventioneers at...
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- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) August 25, 1990 700+ words
...National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, in Sacramento, Calif., thinks...National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, was cited by an officer for...for the Michigan chapter of the Fat Acceptance association, agrees. "The fat...
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- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) July 9, 1996 700+ words
...National Association toAdvance Fat Acceptance, a 5,000-member advocacy group...National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance in 1969 to do something about the discrimination his fat wife had to face, says that...
- FAT PEOPLE STILL FAIR GAME.(CAPITAL REGION)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) May 31, 1993 700+ words
...National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, my first reaction is just where...National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance is all about, at least not in...is willing to concede even some fat people have trouble accepting fat...
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