I blame ‘90s diet culture for my adult body image issues
I blame ‘90s diet culture for my adult body image issues
- December 1, 2022
- Sabrina Strings, Saveur Magazine, Dec. 1, 2022
Why, then, did the heyday of dieting hit in the ‘90s? … For Sabrina Strings, University of California sociology professor and author of Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, one component of this complex issue stands out: “The Reagan-Clinton era marked a backlash against both Civil Rights and the Women’s Movement, with a return to cis white heteronormativity,” she told me. “As a result, the racist and sexist standards that activists had protested—including a white, thin beauty ideal—saw a resurgence.”
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