Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Holt PaperbacksISBN-13:9781250892508ISBN-10:1250892503UPC:9781250892508Book Category:Family & Relationships, Psychology, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Parenting, Developmental, SociologyBook Topic:ChildSize:7.80 x 5.10 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SC1A7X9K6H
Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture
Now with new material, including a new foreword by Kate Manne, a reading guide, and an afterword from the author.
By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids believe that "fat" is bad. By middle school, more than a quarter of them have gone on a diet. What are parents supposed to do? Kids learn, as we've all learned, that thinness is a survival strategy in a world that equates body size and...Language:EnglishPublisher:Holt PaperbacksISBN-13:9781250892508ISBN-10:1250892503UPC:9781250892508Book Category:Family & Relationships, Psychology, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Parenting, Developmental, SociologyBook Topic:ChildSize:7.80 x 5.10 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SC1A7X9K6H
Virginia Sole-Smith is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's Magazine, Slate, and Elle. She is the author of The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America and also writes the Burnt Toast newsletter. She lives in New York's Hudson Valley with her husband, two daughters, a cat, a dog, and way too many houseplants.
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