Beauty Bias: Discrimination and Social Power
The size acceptance movement also contributed in promoting plus-size ideology
"Essentially, size-acceptance movements, as is true for all equal rights movements, hope to promote acceptance and fight discrimination by means advocacy and by visible, lawful actions to bring public attention to the fact differences do not mean inferiority and that equal rights ought to be available for all regardless of size."
Source:
"Essentially, size-acceptance movements, as is true for all equal rights movements, hope to promote acceptance and fight discrimination by means advocacy and by visible, lawful actions to bring public attention to the fact differences do not mean inferiority and that equal rights ought to be available for all regardless of size."
Source:
Berry, B. (2007) Beauty Bias: Discrimination and Social
Power (p. 118). Retrieved on 29 January 2013 from http://books.google.com.my/books?id=mvdLHlg4es8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
Clothing industry expanding covering plus-size outfits
"The Gap, for example, recently nudged up its selections to a size 16.."
"And in mid-2001, the edgy retailer known as Hot Topic, with 291 stores nationwide, opened its first store for sizes 14 to 26."
Source:
Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
Clothing industry expanding covering plus-size outfits
"The Gap, for example, recently nudged up its selections to a size 16.."
"And in mid-2001, the edgy retailer known as Hot Topic, with 291 stores nationwide, opened its first store for sizes 14 to 26."
Source:
Critser, G. (2004) Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People
in the World (p. 60). Retrieved on 29 January 2013 from http://books.google.com.my/books?id=0pvei-5tJoEC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Human Sexuality and Obesity
Is plus-size getting normalized?
"Despite the emphasis on thinness and the proliferation of health fitness centers and gyms, the American population continues to increase in body mass. New standards for "normal" bosy weight hace increased by 10-15%, according to the generally accepted Metropolitan Life weight-statistic tables.
Source:
E. Bess, B. (1997) Human Sexuality
and Obesity. International Journal of
Mental Health. 26(1), 61.
Retrieved on 29 January 2013 from http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/41344810?uid=3738672&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21101864037467
"Several fashion models have emerged in recent years by gaining recofnition for their status as “plus-size” models. Emme, a Ford Agency model who is 5-11 and weighs 185 pounds, was selected by People magazine as one of the “50 Most Beautiful People in the World.’ In her motiovational book True Beauty, Emme (Emme and Paisner 1996:238-39) encourages and models the practice of narrative resistance for her readers:
Sobal, J. and Maurer, D. (1999) Interpreting Weight: The Social Management of Fatness and Thinness (p. 45). Retrieved on 29 January 2013 from http://books.google.com.my/books?id=rU2lVB_gjwkC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Interpreting Weight: The Social Management of Fatness and Thinness
"Several fashion models have emerged in recent years by gaining recofnition for their status as “plus-size” models. Emme, a Ford Agency model who is 5-11 and weighs 185 pounds, was selected by People magazine as one of the “50 Most Beautiful People in the World.’ In her motiovational book True Beauty, Emme (Emme and Paisner 1996:238-39) encourages and models the practice of narrative resistance for her readers:
It has to do with looking beyond “trouble”
spots and discovering aspects of your character or physical traits to cherish
and admire, The mirror doesn’t lie. Embrace the parts of your body and
personality that make you feel good…It has to do eith rejecting some of our
more commonly held notions of beauty in favor of the ones that make sense. With
two kids and two jobs it’s impossible to make a fashion statement every time
you leave the house. Accept that it’s probably foolish to try. But to the one
who loves you, you will always look like a page out of the Victoris’s Secret
catalogue. Keep in mind that you can still turn the right heads when it matters
most...."
Source:
Sobal, J. and Maurer, D. (1999) Interpreting Weight: The Social Management of Fatness and Thinness (p. 45). Retrieved on 29 January 2013 from http://books.google.com.my/books?id=rU2lVB_gjwkC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
