Will I love Unshrinking?

Size discrimination leads to getting paid inequitably, receiving inferior health care, and being classified by teachers as unintelligent. These facts alone should convince you that fatphobia is a form of oppression. Moreover, philosopher Manne’s personal struggles with dieting punctuate that fatphobia seeps into all our souls. The solution, she advocates in this engagingly written book, is for fat people to stop thinking of themselves as thin people trapped in large bodies and to stand in solidarity with other fat people—and for everyone to challenge this insidious injustice.

I love Kate Manne’s writing. In many ways, her first book, Down Girl, impacted me more, but it was published by an academic press. And my (totally made up, but I’m sticking to them!) rules for this list is that the books must be published with a trade press, so they genuinely intend to do philosophy with everyone.

This is Manne’s second trade book, but it is the work of hers that I found most immediately gripping, personal, and a bit haunting. As someone who has struggled with body image throughout my life and who has come slowly and… show more.