Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul

Name: Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul
Brand: Ecco Press
SKU: 0063076373
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ISBN: 9780063076372

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05 Dec, 2023

By Evette Dionne (Author)

A poignant and ruthlessly honest journey through cultural expectations of size, race, and gender--and toward a brighter future--from National Book Award no...

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ISBN-10:

0063076373

ISBN-13:

9780063076372

Publisher

Ecco Press

No.of Pages

272

Dimensions

7.87 X 5.2 X 0.71 inches

Description

A poignant and ruthlessly honest journey through cultural expectations of size, race, and gender--and toward a brighter future--from National Book Award nominee Evette Dionne

My body has not betrayed me; it has continued rebounding against all odds. It is a body that others map their expectations on, but it has never let me down.

In this insightful, funny, and whip-smart book, acclaimed writer Evette Dionne explores the minefields fat Black women are forced to navigate in the course of everyday life. From her early experiences of harassment to adolescent self-discovery in internet chatrooms to a diagnosis of heart failure at age twenty-nine, Dionne tracks her relationships with friendship, sex, motherhood, agoraphobia, health, pop culture, and self-image.

Along the way, she lifts back the curtain to reveal the subtle, insidious forms of surveillance and control levied at fat women: At the doctor's office, where any health ailment is treated with a directive to lose weight. On dating sites, where larger bodies are rejected or fetishized. On TV, where fat characters are asexual comedic relief. But Dionne's unflinching account of our deeply held prejudices is matched by her fierce belief in the power of self-love.

An unmissable portrait of a woman on a journey toward understanding our society and herself, Weightless holds up a mirror to the world we live in and asks us to imagine the future we deserve.

Product Details

ISBN-10

: 0063076373

ISBN-13

: 9780063076372

Publisher

: Ecco Press

Publication date

: 05 Dec, 2023

About the Author

Evette Dionne -

Evette Dionne is a journalist, an editor, and a pop