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The author "traces the evolution of anti-fat ideology and of the businesses that profit from it. She shows how the glorification of emaciation serves the beauty, fitness, fashion, diet, food, and even the health-care industries, and how the media's vicious vilification of 'fat chicks' guarantees that women will frantically keep spending money on products that promise escape from the stigma."--Jacket.
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2 editions- Other · English · 1997Carol Pub. Group · 273 pages · 9781559724234
- Other · English · 1996Key Porter · 256 pages · 9781550137408
Weight loss preparations industryBody imageWeight lossHealth and hygieneOverweight womenSelf-perception in womenWomenBody image in women