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The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love By Sonya Renee Taylor Cover Image
$18.95
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ISBN: 9781626569768
Published: Berrett-Koehler Publishers - February 13th, 2018

"To build a world that works for everyone, we must first make the radical decision to love every facet of ourselves...'The body is not an apology' is the mantra we should all embrace." 
--Kimberlé Crenshaw, legal scholar and founder and Executive Director, African American Policy Forum 


Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance By Rosie Molinary Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781580056557
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Published: Seal Press - October 4th, 2016

A radical day-by-day guide to redefining beauty and creating lasting self-esteem


Eat Your Feelings: The Food Mood Girl's Guide to Transforming Your Emotional Eating By Lindsey Smith Cover Image
$24.99
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ISBN: 9781250139412
Published: Wednesday Books - December 26th, 2017

**WINNER: Silver Award in the Cookbooks: Natural, Nutrition, Organic, Vegetarian category of the 2018 Living Now Book Award**

**One of the Atlanta Journal-Consitution's s
elf-help books to help you live your best life in 2018**

Cosmopolitan: "Take a bite of [Smith's] tasty advice."


The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America By Virginia Sole-Smith Cover Image
$28.00
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ISBN: 9781250120984
Published: Henry Holt and Co. - November 13th, 2018

An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today’s toxic food culture.


Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia By Sabrina Strings Cover Image
$34.50
ISBN: 9781479886753
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Published: New York University Press - May 7th, 2019

Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological Association

Honorable Mention, 2020 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association

How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years


You Have the Right to Remain Fat By Virgie Tovar Cover Image
$14.95
ISBN: 9781936932313
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Published: Feminist Press - August 14th, 2018

This revolutionary and "viscerally accessible" manifesto isn't about body positivity--it's about a fat revolution (Joy Nash).

"In this bold new book, Tovar eviscerates diet culture, proclaims the joyous possibilities of fatness, and shows us that liberation is possible."--Sarai Walker, author of Dietland


You Are Enough: Your Guide to Body Image and Eating Disorder Recovery By Jen Petro-Roy Cover Image
$19.99
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ISBN: 9781250151025
Published: Feiwel & Friends - February 19th, 2019

A self-help guide that answers your questions about body image and disordered eating

This nonfiction self-help book for young readers with disordered eating and body image problems delivers real talk about eating disorders and body image, tools and information for recovery, and suggestions for dealing with the media messages that contribute so much to disordered eating.


What Are You Hungry For?: Women, Food, and Spirituality By Lynn Ginsburg, Mary Taylor Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9780312310134
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - January 16th, 2003

Women have many secrets. But a woman's secret relationship with food and her body can overshadow other aspects of her life, filling her with obsession, shame and fear. Many women waste countless years focusing on food and appearance, rather than spending energy on what holds deepest meaning for them in life.


Looking Good: Male Body Image in Modern America By Lynne Luciano Cover Image
$22.00
ISBN: 9780809066384
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Published: Hill and Wang - January 9th, 2002

A valuable examination of the tyranny of body image--this time over men


Bodies out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression By Jana Evans Braziel (Editor), Kathleen LeBesco (Editor) Cover Image
By Jana Evans Braziel (Editor), Kathleen LeBesco (Editor)
$38.34
ISBN: 9780520225855
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Published: University of California Press - September 13th, 2001

Since World War II, when the diet and fitness industries promoted mass obsession with weight and body shape, fat has been a dirty word. In the United States, fat is seen as repulsive, funny, ugly, unclean, obscene, and above all as something to lose. Bodies Out of Bounds challenges these dominant perceptions by examining social representations of the fat body.


Lighter Than My Shadow By Katie Green Cover Image
$19.99
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ISBN: 9781941302415
Published: Oni Press - October 3rd, 2017

"A gripping graphic novel about a woman's battle with eating disorders." — The Guardian

Like most kids, Katie was a picky eater. She’d sit at the table in silent protest, hide uneaten toast in her bedroom, listen to parental threats that she’d have to eat it for breakfast.


Women: Body-Positive Art to Inspire and Empower By Carol Rossetti (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Carol Rossetti (Illustrator)
$14.99
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ISBN: 9781634502504
Published: Skyhorse - October 20th, 2015

“Rosetti’s illustrations are personalized affirmations of the rights of women. They congratulate the empowered, comfort the survivors, and present rebuttals to the oppressive comments that rain down upon women from the heights of the patriarchy.” —Bust

The message we receive from the world is clear: we’re not good enough.