{"product_id":"9781501333286","title":"Fat","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eFat\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Hanne Blank\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublic enemy.  Crucial macronutrient. Health risk. Punchline. Moneymaker. Epidemic. Sexual fetish.  Moral failing. Necessary bodily organ. Conveyor of flavor. Freak-show spectacle.  Never mind the stereotype, fat is never sedentary: its definitions, identities, and meanings are manifold and in constant motion. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDemonized in medicine and public policy, adored by chefs and nutritional faddists (and let's face it, most of us who eat), simultaneously desired and abhorred when it comes to sex, and continually courted by a multi-billion-dollar fitness and weight-loss industry, for so many people “fat” is ironically nothing more than an insult or a state of despair.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Hanne Blank's \u003ci\u003eFat \u003c\/i\u003ewe find fat as state, as possession, as metaphor, as symptom, as object of desire, intellectual and carnal.  Here, “feeling fat” and literal fat merge, blurring the boundaries and infusing one another with richer, fattier meanings.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eObject Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Throughout \u003ci\u003eFat\u003c\/i\u003e, Blank beautifully disrupts and destabilizes the notion of fat and, in doing so, challenged me to think deeper about the category as a whole.” - \u003ci\u003eFat Studies  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Hanne Blank's characteristically honest, creative, wickedly funny, and sharply insightful voice comes through on every page of this eminently readable book. Blank reveals fat as polysemic, at once mundane and hidden, sexually charged, and socially vexed. \u003ci\u003eFat \u003c\/i\u003eis a scholarly ethnography of an everyday object that manages to be a genuine page-turner.” —\u003ci\u003eQuill Rebecca Kukla, Professor of Philosophy and Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781501333286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40716014452942,"sku":"9781501333286","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_d47df546-8cf1-4aeb-ac50-33a2edcc7869.jpg?v=1640928067","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781501333286","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}