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Intersections eBook Series

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  • Botox Nation

    Changing the Face of America

    by Dana Berkowitz ...
    Series Book 4 - Intersections
    One of NPR's Best Books of 2017The first in-depth social investigation into the development and rising popularity of BotoxThe American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery estimates there are about two-and-a-half million Botox procedures performed annually, and that number continues to increase. The procedure is used as a preventive measure against aging and a means by which bodies, particularly ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

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  • What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat

    by Aubrey Gordon ...
    From the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people.Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat, Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have led to people being denied basic needs because they are fat and calls for social ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • "You Just Need to Lose Weight"

    And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

    by Aubrey Gordon ...
    Series Book 13 - Myths Made in America
    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAN INDIE BESTSELLER**“One of the great thinkers of our generation . . . I feel fresher and smarter and happier for sitting down with her.”—Jameela Jamil, iWeigh PodcastThe co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the facts to debunk common anti-fat myths and with tools to take action for fat justice**The pushback that shows ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • You Have the Right to Remain Fat

    by Virgie Tovar ...
    "In this bold new book, Tovar eviscerates diet culture, proclaims the joyous possibilities of fatness, and shows us that liberation is possible." —Sarai Walker, author of DietlandGrowing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt, she was over it—and gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again.Ever ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The H-Spot

    The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness

    by Jill Filipovic ...
    What do women want? The same thing men were promised in the Declaration of Independence: happiness, or at least the freedom to pursue it.For women, though, pursuing happiness is a complicated endeavor, and if you head out into America and talk to women one-on-one, as Jill Filipovic has done, you'll see that happiness is indelibly shaped by the constraints of gender, the expectations of feminine ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Moving On: Essays on the Aftermath of Leaving Academia

    by Kathleen Miller, Julie Chmiel, Lauren Whitehead & Jet ...
    Thinking of leaving academia? Or have you already started inching toward the exit? In this volume, 14 former graduate students, adjuncts, and tenure-track professors tell their personal stories about leaving academia, rediscovering their lives in the "real world," and finding new jobs and careers. The essays are full of personal stories, memories, and frank discussions about the complex feelings ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Perfect Me

    Beauty as an Ethical Ideal

    by Heather Widdows ...
    How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today’s worldThe demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to which we judge ourselves good or bad, a success or a failure. Perfect Me explores the changing nature of the beauty ideal, showing how it is more ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • The Fat Studies Reader

    Edited by Esther Rothblum, Sondra Solovay ...
    Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in PsychologyWinner of the 2010 Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Edited Volume in Women’s Studies from the Popular Culture AssociationWe have all seen the segments on television news shows: A fat person walking on the sidewalk, her face out of frame so she can't be identified, as some disconcerting findings about ... Read more

    $23.49 USD

  • The Remedy

    Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care

    Edited by Zena Sharman ...
    Winner, Lambda Literary Award (LGBT Anthology)The Remedy invites writers and readers to imagine what we need to create healthy, resilient, and thriving LGBTQ communities. This anthology is a diverse collection of real-life stories from queer and trans people on their own health-care experiences and challenges, from gay men living with HIV who remember the systemic resistance to their health-care ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ugly

    Giving Us Back Our Beauty Standards

    by Anita Bhagwandas ...
    Embrace Your Uniqueness and Rewrite Beauty and Fashion“Anita's deep dive into beauty, its history and the pressure to look ‘perfect’ is essential reading.” ―Caroline Hirons, writer and “queen of skincare” according to The GuardianUgly is a powerful exploration of our relationship with looks, challenging centuries-old standards, and empowering us to redefine beauty beyond appearance.Break ... ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Beauty Bias

    The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law

    by Deborah L. Rhode ...
    "It hurts to be beautiful" has been a cliche for centuries. What has been far less appreciated is how much it hurts not to be beautiful. The Beauty Bias explores our cultural preoccupation with attractiveness, the costs it imposes, and the responses it demands. Beauty may be only skin deep, but the damages associated with its absence go much deeper. Unattractive individuals are less likely to be ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Facing Age

    Women Growing Older in Anti-Aging Culture

    by Laura Hurd Clarke ...
    Series series Diversity and Aging
    The first book in the new series Diversity and Aging, Laura Hurd Clarke's Facing Age examines the relationship between aging and women in a culture obsessed with youthfulness. From weight gain, to wrinkles, to sagging skin, to gray hair, the book explores older women's complex and often contradictory feelings about their bodies and the physical realities of growing older. Although the women in the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD