The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America
By: Virginia Sole-Smith
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today’s toxic food cul…
Want to Read $ 11.99"Food is supposed to sustain and nurture us. Eating well, any doctor will tell you, is the most important thing you can do to take care of yourself. Feeding well, any human will tell you, is the most important job a mother has, especially in the first months of her child’s life. But right now, in America, we no longer think of food as sustenance or nourishment. For many of us, food feels dangerous. We fear it. We regret it. And we categorize everything we eat as good or bad, with the “bad"-Virginia Sole-Smith, The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America
"Food is supposed to sustain and nurture us. Eating well, any doctor will tell you, is the most important thing you can do to take care of yourself. Feeding well, any human will tell you, is the most important job a mother has, especially in the first months of her child’s life. But right now, in America, we no longer think of food as sustenance or nourishment. For many of us, food feels dangerous. We fear it. We regret it. And we categorize everything we eat as good or bad, with the “bad"-Virginia Sole-Smith, The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America
"So it's our discomfort - and even disgust - with the joy of eating that frightens us. And that's because of a culture that tells us, in a thousand ways, from the time we first start solid foods, that this comfort cannot be trusted. That we cannot be trusted to know what and how much to eat. We must outsource this judgment to experts who know better - first to our parents, then to teachers; then to food gurus and big brands, who sell us on diets, cleanses, food dogmas, and "lifestyle changes." We cede our knowledge, our own personal relationship with food, to an entire world built on the premise that we don't know how to feed ourselves."-Virginia Sole-Smith, The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America
"So it's our discomfort - and even disgust - with the joy of eating that frightens us. And that's because of a culture that tells us, in a thousand ways, from the time we first start solid foods, that this comfort cannot be trusted. That we cannot be trusted to know what and how much to eat. We must outsource this judgment to experts who know better - first to our parents, then to teachers; then to food gurus and big brands, who sell us on diets, cleanses, food dogmas, and "lifestyle changes." We cede our knowledge, our own personal relationship with food, to an entire world built on the premise that we don't know how to feed ourselves."-Virginia Sole-Smith, The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America
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1. Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
By: Linda Bacon
4.20
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
Fat isn't the problem. Dieting is the problem. A society that rejects anyone whose body shape or si… read more
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"Food is a wonderful source of pleasure—but it will get you into trouble if it’s the only source of pleasure you have in your life."-Linda Bacon, Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
2. Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
By: Anne Helen Petersen
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From celebrity gossip expert and BuzzFeed culture writer Anne Helen Petersen comes an accessible, a… read more
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3. Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living
By: Jes Baker
4.00
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
THIS IS JES BAKER'S BODY-LOVE PARTY, AND YOU'RE INVITED. Among the many Things No One Will Tell… read more
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"You're not a better person if you eat carrots, and you're not a fuckup if you eat pie."-Jes Baker, Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living
"Our bodies cannot truly be hidden, no matter how many black outfits we wear. No matter how many pairs of Spanx we own. No matter how much we suck it in. Doesn't it seem like a better use of our time …"-Jes Baker, Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living
4. Thin Skin: Essays
By: Jenn Shapland
4.02
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
From a National Book Award finalist and a powerful literary mind, an incisive new work examining ca… read more
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5. “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People
By: Aubrey Gordon
4.33
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the fac… read more
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6. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
By: Lyz Lenz
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more
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"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
7. If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
By: Geraldine DeRuiter
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays … read more
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8. Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
By: Shahnaz Habib
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A playful personal and cultural history of travel from a postcolonial, person-of-color perspective,… read more
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"I don't know if this should be considered a hobby or a disorder, but going for a walk is my idea of a marvelous time."-Shahnaz Habib, Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
9. The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
By: Rhaina Cohen
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Why do we place romantic partnership on a pedestal? What do we lose when we expect one person to me… read more
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10. Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture
By: Sara Petersen
3.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
On Instagram, the private work of mothering is turned into a public performance, generating bil… read more
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11. ADHD is Awesome: A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving with ADHD
By: Penn Holderness
4.32
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Hi, friend! Welcome to the ADHD club. You're here because, like me, you've been diagnosed with a… read more
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12. Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included)
By: Pooja Lakshmin
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From board-certified psychiatrist and women's mental health specialist Pooja Lakshmin, MD, comes a … read more
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13. Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
By: Kate Manne
4.25
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research t… read more
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14. Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
By: Angela Garbes
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Like a Mother comes a reflection on the state of caregiving in America… read more
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"We are caught between how we were raised and how we really want to live."-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
"More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible,"-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
"Doing this requires knowledge of the history of mothering and care work—how they came to be seen as naturally female, which is to say invisible and undervalued."-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
"When you become a mother, you engender life, endless possibilities. Mothering is creative in a very literal sense—it is cultivating all that potential, bringing a small person into consciousness."-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
15. The Titanic Survivors Book Club
By: Timothy Schaffert
3.19
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
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"I would happily spend every minute of my future hearing about every minute of his past."-Timothy Schaffert, The Titanic Survivors Book Club
16. Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans
By: Jane Marie
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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17. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
By: Aubrey Gordon
4.41
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
From the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias faci… read more
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18. Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating
By: Christy Harrison
4.29
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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19. What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
By: Cole Kazdin
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Blending personal narrative and investigative reporting, Emmy Award-winning journalist Cole Kazdin … read more
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"I loved a good bulimia joke and even sometimes initiated them, like after a dinner out with friends, "I'd better run home and throw this up." We all laughed; my girlfriends said similar things. But I…"-Cole Kazdin, What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
20. The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America
By: Virginia Sole-Smith
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today’s toxic food cul… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
- science
"Food is supposed to sustain and nurture us. Eating well, any doctor will tell you, is the most important thing you can do to take care of yourself. Feeding well, any human will tell you, is the most …"-Virginia Sole-Smith, The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America
"So it's our discomfort - and even disgust - with the joy of eating that frightens us. And that's because of a culture that tells us, in a thousand ways, from the time we first start solid foods, that…"-Virginia Sole-Smith, The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America
21. The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses, and Find Your True Well-Being
By: Christy Harrison
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A searing critique of modern wellness culture and how it stands in the way of true well-being that … read more
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22. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
By: Sabrina Strings
4.25
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
In her first book, sociologist Strings (sociology, Univ. of California, Irvine) explores the histor… read more
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"...the current anti-fat bias in the United States and in much of the West was not born in the medical field. Racial scientific literature since at least the eighteenth century has claimed that fatnes…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"Together, the two traveled to the south of France, where Bernier earned a medical degree in just three months. The degree, however, carried the somewhat suspect stipulation that his fast-tracked medi…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"...racial discourse was deployed by elite Europeans and white Americans to create social distinctions between themselves and fat racial Others. Black people, as well as so-called degraded or hybrid w…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"The legacy of Protestant moralism and race science as it related to fat and thin persons loomed large. Indeed, many early to mid-twentieth-century physicians relied on moral and racial logics to rail…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
23. Sick Enough: A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders
By: Jennifer L. Gaudiani
4.58
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Patients with eating disorders frequently feel that they aren’t "sick enough" to merit treatment, d… read more
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24. Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control
By: Amanda Montei
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An overwhelmed Mom reveals the intersection between misogyny and American motherhood and tracks a p… read more
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25. Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul
By: Evette Dionne
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A poignant and ruthlessly honest journey through cultural expectations of size, race, and gender--a… read more
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"What might change if we simply minded our body's business, and thought about other people's less?"-Evette Dionne, Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul
"I refuse to settle... it would be nice to find a partner, but I'd much rather remain single than settle for someone that's undeserving."-Evette Dionne, Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul
"Our culture treats weight loss as if it's about aesthetics or a vain quest to assimilate, but we rarely consider that it is sometimes a consequence of traumatic experience."-Evette Dionne, Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul
"When I look in the mirror, I don't see a body slimmed through strict dieting and weight loss. I see a body that's weary, that's battered, that has been through absolute hell. I see a body that's resi…"-Evette Dionne, Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul
26. Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing & Liberation
By: Hilary Kinavey
4.45
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A holistic and powerful framework for accepting and liberating our bodies, and ourselves. Have y… read more
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27. The Body Liberation Project: How Understanding Racism and Diet Culture Helps Cultivate Joy and Build Collective Freedom
By: Chrissy King
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From author and wellness personality Chrissy King, an exciting, genre-redefining narrative mix of m… read more
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28. Your Baby’s Bottle-feeding Aversion: Reasons and Solutions
By: Rowena Bennett
4.62
Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition
An infant bottle-feeding aversion is one of the most complex, stressful and confusing situations pa… read more
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29. It's Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women’s Bodies
By: Jessica Wilson MS RD
4.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
WE WILL REWRITE THE NARARTIVE OF BLACKNESS THAT CENTERS AND CELEBRATES OUR JOY. In It’s Always Bee… read more
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30. Get Off My Neck: Black Lives, White Justice, and a Former Prosecutor's Quest for Reform
By: Debbie Hines
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A deeply revealing exposé of the American prosecutorial system and its historic and present racial … read more
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31. Elephants: Birth, Life, and Death in the World of the Giants
By: Hannah Mumby
3.51
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Wie viel haben wir mit Elefanten gemein? Eine junge Wissenschaftlerin gibt – auf den Spuren einer v… read more
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