VERY strong recommendation for James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon from someone who normally finds reading biography to be only slightly more pleasant than gnawing my own leg off.
I read an earlier edition of Unbearable Weight and thought it was great. Really angry and kinda depressing but great.
Zaftig: The Case for Curves is pretty to look at but otherwise unremarkable.
Women En Large: Images of Fat Nudes is indispensable with beautiful images and writing.
Fat!So? is indispensable and really, really fun.
I find early X-Men (e.g., Essential X-Men Vol. 1) to be annoying although I enjoy the movies a lot and have a thing for Wolverine.
I can't remember if I've read Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium but I have really liked everything else I've read of hers.
The Beauty Myth is a classic. A lot of its ideas are pretty mainstream now but it's worth seeing one of the sources they came from.
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on 2007-04-24 07:04 am (UTC)I read an earlier edition of Unbearable Weight and thought it was great. Really angry and kinda depressing but great.
Zaftig: The Case for Curves is pretty to look at but otherwise unremarkable.
Women En Large: Images of Fat Nudes is indispensable with beautiful images and writing.
Fat!So? is indispensable and really, really fun.
I find early X-Men (e.g., Essential X-Men Vol. 1) to be annoying although I enjoy the movies a lot and have a thing for Wolverine.
I can't remember if I've read Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium but I have really liked everything else I've read of hers.
The Beauty Myth is a classic. A lot of its ideas are pretty mainstream now but it's worth seeing one of the sources they came from.