{"product_id":"the-tyranny-of-thinness","title":"The Tyranny of Thinness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fearlessly feminist philosophical approach to defying diet culture, cultivating radical self-care, and rediscovering empowered embodiment \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInformed by personal narrative, cultural studies, and the work of luminaries from Simone de Beauvoir and Mary Wollstonecraft to Audre Lorde and Roxane Gay\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this timely and unflinching manifesto, Dr. Celine Leboeuf unpacks the philosophical and oppressive systems that sustain our cultural obsession with being thin--why it's framed as something to \"achieve,\" how it's predicated on exclusion, and that the goalposts are racist and misogynistic--and always moving.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on memoir, feminist theory, and cultural analysis, \u003ci\u003eThe Tyranny of Thinness\u003c\/i\u003e is a wide-ranging and erudite treatise on how the skinny ideal shapes our earliest memories and experiences--and steals joy, agency, and self-determination from our adolescences, our social identities, our ambitions, and even our sense of moral worth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePart 1\u003c\/b\u003e traces the origins of fatphobia in anti-Black racism, unpacking how thinness is a carefully constructed ideal. Dr. Céline Leboeuf shows how self-objectification is instilled in young girls and diverted toward activities that enforce objectification. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePart 2\u003c\/b\u003e offers a path forward. Through embodied practices like intuitive eating, joyful movement, sensual awareness, community care, and the philosophical exercise of world-remaking, \u003ci\u003eThe Tyranny of Thinness\u003c\/i\u003e outlines a new way of living in one's body that is compassionate, realistic, and self-empowering.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the resurrection of heroin chic and thinspo to the rise of #SkinnyTok and Ozempic, Dr. Leboeuf exposes how thinness becomes a political weapon--and shows how the body positivity movement has been coopted and repackaged. This book is an elevated must-read for anyone struggling with body image--and every reader searching to understand what the culture dictates about beauty and perceived worth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"North Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":54354885902704,"sku":"9798889844068","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0954\/1304\/3568\/files\/imageloader_ac7a925e-b953-4e3b-b306-9a19be4bb636.jpg?v=1790090241","url":"https:\/\/aveson.store\/products\/the-tyranny-of-thinness","provider":"Aveson","version":"1.0","type":"link"}