UNSHRINKING

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST Required reading for everyone who lives in an unruly human body elegant fierce and profound Roxane GaySize discrimination harms everyone Acclaimed philosopher Kate Manne shows how to combat it For as long as she can remember Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion her wedding day the day she became a professor the day her daughter was born She s been bullied and belittled for her size leading to extreme dieting As a feminist philosopher she wanted to believe that she was exempt from the cultural gaslighting that compels so many of us to ignore our hunger But she was not Blending intimate stories with trenchant analysis Manne shows why fatphobia matters now more than ever Over the last decades bias has waned in every category except one body size Here she examines how anti fatness operates how it leads us to make devastating assumptions about a person s attractiveness fortitude and intellect and how it intersects with other systems of oppression Fatphobia is responsible for wage gaps medical neglect and poor educational outcomes It is a straitjacket restricting our freedom our movement our potential Fatphobia is a social justice issue In this urge