10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SIZISM»
Discover the use of
sizism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
sizism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
American Sizism Sucks, addresses the problem of SIZE PREJUDICE as a jumping off point to a larger discussion that includes all “-ism prejudices” in a way that nurtures the reader into accepting themselves as a victim and/or perpetrator ...
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Turbo Chicks: Talking Young Feminisms
To understand sizism, one must understand its roots. I think those roots lie in
sexism. It may seem foreign and trivial but the fact is “sizism” is a term rarely used
when discussing oppression. It's a term that exists but has not yet been justified in
a ...
Lara Karaian, Lisa Bryn Rundle, Allyson Mitchell, 2001
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Men and the War on Obesity: A Sociological Study
In that respect, sizism is a gendered form of bigotry that is inseparable from
sexism (Smith 1990), though sizism also has the potential to hurt men who are
seen as fat and are subordinated on masculine hierarchies. While research
participants ...
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In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation
... Domenico Tergazzi Figure 2, Chapter 2 Lipton Yellow Label tea packet for
Arab market Figure 3, Chapter 2 Trados advertisement Figure 4, Screen shot
from Sizism Awareness Campaign video Chapter 2 Figure 5, Chapter 3 Title of
article in ...
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Interpreting Weight: The Social Management of Fatness and ...
This reasoning is based on the logic that sizism can only be avoided by shedding
the offending weight—which is popularly assumed to be self-inflicted. Indeed, the
medical literature is replete with suggestions that sizism serves as a sufficient ...
Jeffery Sobal, Donna Maurer, 1999
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Soccer, the Left, & the Farce of Multiculturalism
They had no interest in fighting institutional sizism, or even acknowledging it.
Likewise, they assured me that they were open-minded and that conservatives
weren't, but that turned out to be false, too. I had no more use for the left (that is,
as it ...
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Measuring Up: How Advertising Affects Self-Image
It is noteworthy that the plus-sized models Mode uses, like the 5'l0" blond model
Emme. are a size l4—a size that is actually average for American women,
although the 5'l0" height is certainly not. In addition, perhaps as a sign of anti-
sizism. or ...
Vickie Rutledge Shields, 2011
On a global scale, it's worth considering that this attitude — let's call it 'sizism,' —
in our society also smacks of racism. Everyone in the world is seen from the
Western/Caucasian perspective. The Guardian Weekly said about President Bill
...
Peggy Smith Krachun, 1998
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The Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination: Disability, ...
However, much like homophobia, sizism is rooted in fear and misinformation.
This bias is one that I have found even my colleagues to be unaware of in
themselves. Poor body image is so pervasive in our culture that most of us project
our bad ...
Ageism is discrimination on grounds of (old) age—for instance, denying
employment topeople over the ageof60;sizism is discrimination (usually
againstfat people) on groundsof size and speechismis discrimination
againstpeople with speech ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SIZISM»
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sizism is used in the context of the following news items.
The Limits Of Sizism
(An aside: I'm going with “sizism” instead of “sizeism” on this one. You could ... Dictionary.com prefers “sizeism,” and Merriam-Webster hasn't weighed in yet.). «Aquarian Weekly, Feb 10»
