Woman calls attention to double standard that exists for women whose dress sizes are above the national average
Woman calls attention to double standard that exists for women whose dress sizes are above the national average
- May 17, 2023
- Sabrina Strings, sociology, In the Know, May 17, 2023
According to Sabrina Strings, author of Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins
of Fat Phobia and a [Chancellor’s Fellow and associate] sociology professor at the
University of California Irvine, the early 19th century’s push for “thinness” was
reinforced by both racial and Christian propriety. “This began the whole idea that
Black people, as a race, were prone to what was considered a low form of corpulence
that should be avoided,” Strings said.
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