Title 1: The Obesity Myth

Author: Paul Campos

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Specifically written for people who are overweight, medically supervised or inactive, this fitness guide is tailor-made for the millions of Americans who have felt left behind by the diet and fitness industry. Readers learn how to start feeling happy and energized from the moment they start moving, without expensive equipment or a gym membership.

Title 2: 365 Glorious Nights of Love and Romance

Author: Patrika Darbo

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Fans of Days of Our Lives will immediately recognize Darbo, better known as the full-figured, sensual Nancy Wesley on that show. Voted one of TV Guide's sexiest women in 1999, Darbo has taken this honor too seriously. Her book begins as an autobiography but switches to a manual on how to be sexy every day. Readers expecting her life story will not find it here. Life experiences are sprinkled throughout, but the text focuses on how to be sexually pleased and pleasing. Though Darbo writes sensitively and in a personal style that is easy to read, even her biggest fans may quickly lose interest. They may also bridle at her advice, which can be archaic, e.g., "a finger to your lips, a gentle stroke to the bottom lip while dreamily thinking about an answer to a question, is very sensual." Ultimately, this is entertaining but insubstantial; had Darbo provided some backstage gossip, she would have had a best seller. Purchase only where there is interest. Rosalind Dayen, Broward Cty., Florida South Regional Lib. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

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I've learned never to let momentary fear stand in my way. There are no excuses. I've learned that power is sexy. So is confidence in yourself.Patrika Darbo, the popular star of Days of Our Lives and the woman who TV Guide calls the "full-figured bitch goddess" of daytime television, has broken the size barrier and shattered the stereotype that heavy people are doomed to unhappy lives -- personally or professionally. Here Patrika shares her life story, writing with her heart on her sleeve about her hard-won victories as she offers advice -- not for losing weight, but for gaining confidence, a winning attitude, and a positive approach to life.Patrika doesn't ask anyone to change but simply to celebrate who they really are. Patrika herself wasn't always self-confident and savvy to the ways of Hollywood and the real world. Over the years, she's often been up and down on the scale; yet through all the diets and binges she's never lost sight of her dreams and has never let momentary fear stand in her way. She's the first to admit that issues of self-esteem go along with being big, but she's learned how to move beyond them and has never allowed conventional notions of beautylimit her or tell her what her life should be. No matter who you are or what size you're not, you can be beautiful, confident, and sexy. As Patrika takes you through her life story, she offers advice for living out loud and great pointers for making everyday exciting -- from the set of Days of Our Lives to the bedroom (or kitchen, or living room, or laundry room). Patrika encourages and inspires women of all sizes to remember the best of who they are.

Title 3: Sizeable Reflections

Author: Shelley Bovey

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Fans of Days of Our Lives will immediately recognize Darbo, better known as the full-figured, sensual Nancy Wesley on that show. Voted one of TV Guide's sexiest women in 1999, Darbo has taken this honor too seriously. Her book begins as an autobiography but switches to a manual on how to be sexy every day. Readers expecting her life story will not find it here. Life experiences are sprinkled

Title 4: Thin Is Just a Four-Letter Word: Living Fit-For All Shapes and Sizes

Author: Dee Hakala, Michael D'Orso

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Specifically written for people who are overweight, medically supervised or inactive, this fitness guide is tailor-made for the millions of Americans who have felt left behind by the diet and fitness industry. Readers learn how to start feeling happy and energized from the moment they start moving, without expensive equipment or a gym membership.

At a time when 65 percent of the American population is considered "deconditioned," the fitness industry seems more and more to be serving those who're already in shape, rather than the majority of the population, which isn't. That's the problem Dee Hakala encountered when she started taking aerobics classes with 320 pounds on her under-5-foot frame. She lost 100 pounds and 35 inches off her waist, but more than that, she started a series of exercise programs to reach people who're severely overweight and otherwise atypical in the gym world. This is more her life story than a fitness manual, but it's a valuable resource for anyone who's felt left out of the fitness revolution.

Title 5: Big Big Love: A SourceBook on Sex for People of Size and Those Who Love Them

Author: Hanne Blank

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At last, a book that covers the how-tos and why-tos of sexuality from the point of view of big folks and those who love them! Big Big Love is a no-holds-barred, yet lighthearted, overview of sex for everybody from the chubby to the supersized. With detailed and realistic information on improving self-image, partner-finding, sexual positions and activities, resources and much more, Big Big Love dares to speak to everybody who?s ever feared they were out of the running for a bountiful and sexy life. Essential reading for women, men and transfolk... heterosexuals, gays and bisexuals...and anyone else who's ever been told that sex is only for the slender!

Hanne Blank is no tease. When she says big, she means real big. When she says love, she means real love. And when she says, 'Hey, sailor...' (Well, that's another story.) Here is a book unlike any other: much-needed, long-awaited, and thoroughly fun! — (Marilyn Wann, author of Fat!So? Because You Don't Have To Apologize For Your Size).

Title 6: Bodies out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression

Author: Jana Evans Braziel (Editor), Kathleen LeBesco (Editor)

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Since World War II, when the diet and fitness industries promoted mass obsession with weight and body shape, fat has been a dirty word. In the United States, fat is seen as repulsive, funny, ugly, unclean, obscene, and above all as something to lose. Bodies Out of Bounds challenges these dominant perceptions by examining social representations of the fat body. The contributors to this collection show that what counts as fat and how it is valued are far from universal; the variety of meanings attributed to body size in other times and places demonstrates that perceptions of corpulence are infused with cultural, historical, political, and economic biases. The exceptionally rich and engaging essays collected in this volume question discursive constructions of fatness while analyzing the politics and power of corpulence and addressing the absence of fat people in media representations of the body. The essays are widely interdisciplinary; they explore their subject with insight, originality, and humor. The contributors examine the intersections of fat with ethnicity, race, queerness, class, and minority cultures, as well as with historical variations in the signification of fat. They also consider ways in which "objective" medical and psychological discourses about fat people and food hide larger agendas. By illustrating how fat is a malleable construct that can be used to serve dominant economic and cultural interests, Bodies Out of Bounds stakes new claims for those whose body size does not adhere to society's confining standards.

Title 7: Fat: Exploding the Myths

Author: Lisa Colles, Foreword by Andrew Prentice

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Fat: Exploding the Myths sets out to explore all sides of this complex and controversial subject, and to provide answers for the many questions raised. More than 100 international experts in the field have been interviewed in the course of researching this book, providing access to the latest information on the subject. Around the world in gyms, hospitals, schools, universities, eating disorder clinics, obesity clinics, fat acceptance groups and private homes, there are hundreds of people whose lives and careers are dominated by fat. Fashion shows, advertisements and magazines continue to unnecessarily emphasize thinness as a virtue. Food manufacturers appeal to this market with their low-fat and fat-free varieties yet continue to offer high-cholesterol foods without regard to their consequences. Fat: Exploding the Myths brings all these stories to life.

Title 8: Carrying a Little Extra: A Guide to Healthy Pregnancy for the Plus-Size Woman

Author: Paula Bernstein, Marlene Clark, Netty Levine

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The first health guide for plus-size moms-to-be. For the pregnant woman, or the woman trying to conceive, weight problems provide a special set of challenges. This is certainly not the time for strict dieting and strenuous exercise...yet sensible weight management is an essential part of mother's and baby's health. In this book women can find the facts they need on:

€ How weight affects fertility
€ Gaining enough weight for a healthy baby while avoiding the risk of excess pounds
€ Gestational diabetes, pregnancy-induced hypertension, preeclampsia, and eclampsia
€ Avoiding premature delivery, caesarean section, and other complications
€ The dos and don'ts of exercise
€ Nutrition: managing your weight while you wait
€ Emotional issues
€ Breastfeeding and postpartum health maintenance

Title 9: Fat Is a Feminist Issue: The Anti-Diet Guide to Permanent Weight Loss

Author: Susie Orbach

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Now reissued, Susie Orbach's classic changed the way women look at themselves. Orbach's non-dieting approach to weight loss shows women how to get off the diet/binge merry-go-round and lose weight through self acceptance. "It is more essential than ever that (it) be read by every American woman."--Susan Faludi, bestselling author of Backlash.

Title 10: Fat!So?: Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size

Author: Marilyn Wann, Wann Marilyn

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YA-The pervasiveness and dangers of anorexia, bulimia, and other eating disorders are undeniable; recent articles on the subject have appeared in periodicals ranging from People to the Journal of the American Medical Association. Wann, a 5'4", 275-pound Californian, states unequivocally that America needs an attitude adjustment. Fear of fat, she says, supports a $40 billion a year diet industry, destroys both relationships and self-esteem, and engenders "loathing on a national level." Her revolutionary idea? Eat right, exercise, and stop worrying about weight. Being thin doesn't automatically equate with either health or happiness, the author reminds readers. She includes information from physicians, health experts, and medical journals to support her assertion that fitness contributes more to longevity than the "the f-word." The book, named after her Web site and her zine, is an engaging blend of fact and humor. Charts, graphics, photos ("visual counterpropaganda"), testimonials, quotes, ideas for sassy comebacks, and much more can help teens of all sizes reevaluate their view of the "flabulous." Fat! So? is irreverent and thought provoking, informative and fun.Dori DeSpain, Herndon Fortnightly Library, Fairfax County, VA Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

In this hilarious and eye-opening book, fat and proud activist/zinester Marilyn Wann takes on America's biggest fear--worse than the fear of public speaking or nuclear weapons--the fear of fat

Title 11: Feeding Desire: Fatness and Beauty in the Sahara

Author: Rebecca Popenoe

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While in the West it is said that women can never be too thin, semi-nomadic Arabs in Niger cherish a feminine ideal of extreme fatness. Feeding Desire seeks to explain this ideal by examining it in the context of Islamic faith, local concepts of health and the body, and, not least, notions of sexuality and desire
From the age of five or six, young Saharan Moor girls are required to eat several large bowls of grain or porridge with milk. The result is a voluptuousness thought to beautify girl's bodies, heighten their readiness for marriage, and protect them from health problems. While many of the world's societies have a vision of female beauty that tends toward plumpness, very few actively encourage their women to become as weighty as the Moors (formerly known as Tuaregs). The book explores how fattening is deeply grounded in wider structures of Moor life: devotion to Islam, adherence to patrilineal cousin marriage, and the investment of value produced by men into society's physical and affective center-women and their bodies. Rebecca Popenoe has produced a fascinating investigation of the total social context which produces such an unusual way of thinking about the body.

Title 12: Just the Weigh You Are: How to Be Fit and Healthy, Whatever Your Size

Author: Linda Konner, Steven Jonas

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Now in paperback, the first book of its kind written by a medical doctor, this total fitness guide is for anyone who finds it too difficult to lose weight but still wants to be healthy. North America is in the midst of a backlash against dieting, and many physicians have begun to realize that it is more important to concentrate on total health than solely on weight control. In Just the Weigh You Are, a doctor and a leading nutrition writer guide readers in finding balance in their lives by showing them the path to a healthful lifestyle, regardless of their weight.

Title 13: Nothing to Lose: A Guide to Sane Living in a Larger Body

Author: Cheri K. Erdman

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For all of us who have ever struggled with weight and body image, "Nothing to Lose" offers a way to break the vicious cycle of guilt and self-doubt. Featuring the latest research, practical exercises, and personal stories from dozens of women who have decided not to accept society's "weight problem" as their own, this groundbreaking book offers all the information, support, and encouragement you need to begin accepting your body size and feeling good about yourself, starting now.

Nothing to Lose offers a practical guide to achieving real psychological and physical self-acceptance for women of size. Surveying the history of our culture's attitudes toward women's body size, challenging beliefs about fat with the latest health facts, and suggesting practical tips and exercises for building fitness and self-esteem, Erdman helps readers through the slow, often painful process of healing body shame. Each chapter begins with a personal story of Erdman's own process of body-size acceptance, then explores significant issues such as body image; myth vs. fact about health, weight and dieting; when to consult a therapist and how to choose one; and much more. Erdman has interviewed and worked with hundreds of women and she includes many of their stories here to illustrate the pain, joy, frustration, and triumph that are all part of the journey toward self-acceptance.

Title 14: One Size Fits Few: The Folly of Educational Standards

Author: Susan Ohanian

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One Size Fits Few is a sharp, pointed pin with which to deflate the overblown pro-Standards movement.

Title 15: Owen Foote, Second Grade Strongman

Author: Dee Derosa (Illustrator), Stephanie Greene, Dee De Rosa (Illustrator)

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Owen, a second grader who is being teased for his small size, discovers that his friend Joseph is just as concerned about being overweight, and they share their fear of being humiliated by the school nurse on the annual weigh-in day.

Title 16: Bountiful Women: Large Women's Secrets for Living the Life They Desire

Author: Bonnie Bernell, Carmen Renee Berry

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In spite of the prevalence of large women in our culture, they are not as visible as the statistics suggest. Where are they? Are they "weighting" until they reach some imaginary right size? Can they live a fulfilling life regardless of their size? In Bountiful Women, psychologist Bonnie Bernell, herself a bountiful woman, answers these questions with a resounding "yes"! This book is both a celebration and a how-to: affirming size while offering strategies for handling challenging situations such as negotiating a tight squeeze on an airplane or fielding judgmental comments about size. Filled with practical ideas, Bountiful Women is about the many choices available to large women today.

Title 17: Larger than Death

Author: Lynne Murray

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Introducing "Jo" Fuller, a woman who's full-figured, full of attitude and always ready to use her sizable sluething skills. Jo's just landed a new job as a philanthropic investigator, checking out potential charities for an eccentric socialite. But just as she gets her feet wet, Joe walks in on a terrible scene. Her best friend Nina--a clothing designer for large ladies--is lying dead in her own apartment.

Could Nina be the latest victim of a killer targeting voluptuous women? Or is the murder personal? When Jo moves into Nina's apartment to settle her affairs and take care of Nina's cat, she encounters a bizarre host of neighbors and an unexpected romance. As fingers point in every direction, Jo races to stop a ruthless murderer from closing in on the big kill.

Title 18: Coma grasas

Author: Richard Klein

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Title 19: Women En Large: Images of Fat Nudes

Author: Laurie Toby Edison, Debbie Notkin

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These extraordinary photographs of powerful and beautiful fat women will change your image of beauty forever. The pictures and text combine to send the strongest possible message: We will no longer let society define beauty!

Title 20: Sewing for Plus Sizes: Creating Clothes That Fit and Flatter

Author: Barbara Deckert

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This is the definitive guide for home sewers and dressmakers who wear a size 14 or larger. It is aimed squarely at readers who have basic sewing skills and who use commercial patterns, but do not know how to select designs, proportions, colours and fabrics that enhance and flatter their own unique dimensions and how to adjust standard patterns to accommodate the figure variations that are common to larger women. Everyone looks great in clothes that fit; this is how to make clothes that fit you if off-the-peg options don't.

Title 21: The Invisible Woman: Confronting Weight Prejudice in America

Author: W. Charisse Goodman

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A recent survey of American women found that a great many of them would rather be dead than fat. In every corner of the United States, fat children and adults are subject to ridicule and humiliation. The word "pretty" never applies to them, they are "pigs" "cows" or "hippos," and regardless of their eating behavior, they are viewed as "out of control" compulsive eaters. When it’s time to choose teammates for a game, dates for a dance, or even just friends, heavy women are invisible.
This intelligent, political, feminist treatise explores the all-pervasive prejudice against fat women. It is about shattering the stereotypes, raising awareness about harassment, and asserting the truth that no one has the right to discriminate against anyone based on their size! Goodman exposes our culture’s widely accepted hatred of fat women, from the "health police" who feel that it is their right to approach and criticize strangers about their weight, health, or appearance, to the mass media who perpetuate inappropriate standards of beauty. The Invisible Woman also discusses weight obsession, false assumptions about diet and exercise, the fear and loathing of fat women as sexual beings, disturbing similarities between the aesthetic ideals of the Nazis and America’s quiet extermination of heavy women, and an open letter to men who think fat women are ugly.

Certain to be controversial, this book raises social and personal consciousness at pivotal time the public is finally becoming aware of weight prejudice and women are being encouraged to embrace the body with which they were born.

Great timing! No other book that we have seen examines weight prejudice from a political, cultural, personal perspective.

Title 22: Wake up I'm fat !

Author: CAMRYN MANHEIM

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In this New York Times-bestselling inspirational memoir, Camryn Manheim, Emmy Award-winning costar of The Practice, chronicles her journey from a self-hating, "overweight" teenager, who desperately wanted to fit in, to a self-loving, fat activist who is proud to be a misfit. Wake Up, I'm Fat! shares her intelligent, candid, poignant, and often hilarious stories of being fat in a society obsessed with being thin.

Camryn takes us from her days as a motorcycle-riding hippie in Santa Cruz to her enrollment at New York University's prestigious school of drama--where Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner broke the unspoken theater rules of size by casting her in the role of the ingenue--and finally to Hollywood, where she dispelled the fallacy that large women can't be portrayed as sensual, sophisticated, and confident.

Camryn's endearing honesty, sass, and razor-sharp wit will appeal to any reader who has ever felt like an outcast or yearned to make peace with their body.

Title 23: Real fitness for real women

Author: Rochelle Rice

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Women don't have to be thin to be fit," writes Rochelle Rice. Fitness is not about weight, but about the body, mind, and spirit. Her exercise program, designed for the physical and psychological needs of plus-size women, aims to empower women to get active and reclaim the joy of movement. Real Fitness for Real Women emphasizes exercising for the health and psychological benefits--and the pleasure of it!--rather than for weight loss.
Most exercise books, videos, and gyms, frankly, are demoralizing for large-size women. They usually emphasize the goal of slimness, with impossibly slender women demonstrating exercise routines that would be uncomfortable, even risky, for large women. Rice, instead, studied the biomechanics of large women and developed a six-week, 25-exercise program based on their particular needs.

Title 24: Women Afraid to Eat: Breaking Free in Today's Weight-Obsessed World

Author: Francie M. Berg, Kendra Rosencrans

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Women today are caught up in a body-image crisis, afraid they'll gain weight, afraid they won't lose down to their goal, afraid to fully nourish themselves. They feel oversized in one part or another and wish they were thinner.
The new book "Women Afraid to Eat: Breaking Free in a Weight-Obsessed World," by Frances M. Berg, probes why this is happening at a time when women have more freedom than ever before. What are the powerful forces acting on women that make them feel defective if not thin? How did it happen that a woman's value now is being judged by her degree of slimness, not her talent, insight or generosity?

"Women Afraid to Eat" challenges the social and medical pressures to be thin. It shows in startling detail what the current warped norm for body shape, unachievable by most, is doing to women, how it harms them physically, emotionally and socially. It takes an authoritative look at the many issues that negatively affect eating and weight and how women feel about their bodies.

The book explains why all four of the major weight and eating problems — eating disorders, dysfunctional eating, overweight and size prejudice — have intensified in modern society. Berg, a licensed nutritionist and adjunct professor at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine, charges that the risks of obesity are being exaggerated, and the severe risks of eating disorders, malnutrition, and hazardous weight loss are ignored. Manipulation by the weight loss industry adds to the confusion and controversy, says the author. "If this industry made cars, no one would buy them, and if they did, consumer groups would force a recall."

In its second part the book is a handbook for change at both the personal and cultural level. A philosophy shift is advocated that focuses on health, rather than weight. It offers a broad definition of health that includes positive feelings toward our bodies, and helps women reaffirm that they can be healthy at any size. It gives clear and specific guidelines on how women and those who work with women can bring about meaningful change to improve health and well-being. It encourages people to eat well, live actively, and feel good about themselves and others.

The message for women is, "It's time for acceptance. Time for healing. Time to move on to health at any size fulfilling your rich potential in life. Everyone qualifies!"

Berg's companion book "Children and Teens Afraid to Eat: Helping Youth in Today's Weight-Obsessed World," completely revised for 2001, documents even more severe problems for children. Berg who is editor of Healthy Weight Journal advocates a health at any size approach in which adults and children of all sizes receive consistent messages to "eat well, live actively and feel good about yourself and others," based on the Canadian Vitality program. To normalize eating, parents are urged to first end their own dieting, then teach children regular eating habits and to tune in to hunger and fullness signals.

Together the two Afraid to Eat books, both with 21st century copyrights, offer a treasure trove of new information, charts, tips and how-to suggestions. They provide a wealth of research and insight for speakers, writers and students at all levels. Both are highly recommended by health, nutrition and library sources for both consumers and professionals. Excerpts available online at the website... --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Title 25: Life is not a dress size

Author: Rita Farro

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A welcome practical handbook. Overweight women have been trained to be ashamed of their size, hiding inside lumpy sweats and shapeless layers. This can be especially true for teenage girls, who will find scant support at the local mall. Well, "life is not a dress size," says Farro. Instead, careful attention to fit, style, and "that all-important vertical line" can help overcome the fashion barrier that encourages poor self-image.

Title 26: Too Little, Too Big

Author: Colette Hellings, Dominique Maes

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Edith is too little and Arnold is too big. Try as they might, these mice can't do anything to change their sizes. Finally, fed up with not fitting in, they run away from home and find each other. It is love at first sight, and the pair ``lived happily ever after...and loved all their children, little and big,'' proving once again that love conquers all. Although the story is slight and the ending is not only predictable but illogical (the mice go off as children and then abruptly have a brood of their own), this book should appeal to listeners who feel uncomfortable with their sizes. Maes's delightful cartoons capture the humor in the plights of both rodents. The facial expressions are particularly telling, and the details the artist incorporates do much to bring the characters and their surroundings to life. Not a first purchase, but a pleasant bit of whimsy that will make a fun read-aloud.-Nancy Menaldi-Scanlan, Wheeler School, Providence, RI

Title 27: The Untold Truth About Fatness

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Title 28: Real Women Don't Diet!: One Man's Praise of Large Women and His Outrage at the Society That Rejects Them

Author: Ken Mayer

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There have been books and magazine articles asserting that our society is dangerously obsessed with a single standard of female beauty, namely that of the thin body. Mayer's book stands out because it is written by a man and is a paean to what he regards as real beauty; strong, large women (preferably well over 200 pounds). Expressing heartfelt pain over tortures that overweight women endure (many were prescribed diet pills by alarmed doctors in their early teens), the book will offer comfort to any woman who falls outside the waif-like ideal. Mayer, a "large-size" fashion photographer and freelance writer, rallies facts and figures that verify that "overweight" women are not unhealthy and promotes the sensible idea that if a woman feels healthy, she probably is. Along the way, he throws in a lot of his own extraneous philosophy and practical tips (for instance, on how to reduce the cost of a home loan), and a veritable diatribe against this country's medical establishment and the destruction of the environment. However, with its arresting title and cover (a beautiful, 200 plus-pound woman, obviously pleased with herself and enjoying life), this book will have wide appeal.

Title 29: Style at Large: Knitting Designs for Real Women

Author: Carol Rasmussen R. Noble

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Carol Rasmussen Noble is a knitwear designer and textile collector who has been knitting since the age of eight. As an author, Carol has written three books with subjects ranging from Fair Isle mittens to Orenburg shawls. She has sold her custom clothing designs and patterns since 1980.

Wear bold, beautiful colors! Find styles to flatter your figure! Feel comfortable in your clothes! These gorgeous wearables for medium to plus-size women are designed to make you look great--and guarantee a fit to make you feel great. • Fourteen patterns are proportioned to fit and flatter women’s sizes Medium to 2X • Projects include jackets, cardigans, and pullovers, plus elegant evening wear • Sleeves and necklines are styled to ensure a comfortable fit

Title 30: Self-Esteem Comes in All Sizes: How to Be Happy and Healthy at Your Natural Weight

Author: Carol A. Johnson, Gary D. Foster

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No more diets! Be happy and healthy at your natural weight! In this completely revised and updated edition of her popular book, Carol Johnson reaffirms her passionate message: you can love yourself and enjoy life no matter what your size! A self-proclaimed "ambassador-at-large," she is positive and encouraging for anyone who is tired of weighing their self-esteem on a scale. Put on your "live-for-today" watch and "stand-on-your-own-two-feet" shoes and enjoy this book! Find out: o The real reasons diets don’t work o Why weight prejudice hurts everyone, fat or thin o How to feel attractive and sexy at your natural weight o How to create your own definition of beauty – in a big way o How to change the goal from thin to healthy.

Title 31: For B. O.W. Only: Beautiful Obese Women

Author: Rosebud Dixon- Green

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Title 32: Just the Weigh You Are: How to Be Fit and Healthy, Whatever Your Size

Author: Steven Jonas, Barry Estabrook (Editor), With Linda Konner

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Now in paperback, the first book of its kind written by a medical doctor, this total fitness guide is for anyone who finds it too difficult to lose weight but still wants to be healthy. North America is in the midst of a backlash against dieting, and many physicians have begun to realize that it is more important to concentrate on total health than solely on weight control. In Just the Weigh You Are, a doctor and a leading nutrition writer guide readers in finding balance in their lives by showing them the path to a healthful lifestyle, regardless of their weight.

Title 33: The Strange History of Suzanne LaFleshe: And Other Stories of Women and Fatness

Author: Susan Koppelman (Editor), Foreword by Alix Kates Shulman

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A daring new anthology of short stories, The Strange History of Suzanne LaFleshe features women’s stories on the theme of women and fatness, edited by the award-winning scholar on U.S. women’s short story Susan Koppelman. Spanning from the 1890s through the 1990s, this vital collection explores the many psychological and emotional tensions in women’s -relationships to—and perceptions of—their physical selves. Addressing the peculiarities, the delights, and the shames of body politics that reside in the flesh, these stories of bodies that refuse to be contained deftly and astutely comment on popular notions of acceptable body types and behaviors. Whether celebrating bodies deemed transgressive or simply acknowledging that such bodies exist, these diverse literary representations of fatness render the unfettered body brilliantly.

Title 34: Journeys to Self-Acceptance: Fat Women Speak

Author: Carol A. Wiley (Editor)

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Title 35: Real Gorgeous: The Truth About Body and Beauty

Author: Kaz Cooke

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Title 36: Well Rounded

Author: Catherine Lippincott

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Professional model Catherine Lippincott is sexy, beautiful, confident, successful... and a well-rounded size 16.

One of the fifty million American women who wears a size 12 or above, Catherine Lippincott knows the trials and tribulations of living in a large-sizebody. After years on the weight loss/weight gain roller coaster, she turned her life around -- not by dieting, but by choosing to live happily in the voluptuous body she was meant to have. Now, this gorgeous "plus-size" model shows you how to dress to turn heads, find your signature fashion style and, most of all, to love and respect your beautiful body from head to toe, just as you are.

In Well Rounded, Catherine offers:

Eight simple steps to living joyfully and gracefully, no matter what your shape or size
Body-positive meditations and energy-boosting, mood-improving movements
Invaluable insider tips from Catherine's years as a professional model -- including the fashion industry's big secret to looking fabulous
A simple, tailor-made system of dressing -- it's like a one-to-one personal fashion consultation with Catherine!
Easy strategies for feeling good about yourself now, without losing one pound
A helpful resource guide of clothes and products made just for magnificently contoured women.
Stop trying to change your body. Start changing the way the world sees you, with the book that gives you wonderful results today: Catherine Lippincott's Well rounded.

Title 37: SEXY AT ANY SIZE : The Real Woman's Guide To Dating and Romance

Author: Katie Arons

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Bigger is definitely better, as Katie Arons -- one of the fifty million American women who wear a size 12 or larger, and a world-famous Ford model -- knows. Without a single word about losing weight, Arons offers the encouragement, confidence, and techniques needed to attract smart, good-looking, and successful men. Here, readers of all sizes will welcome the way Katie defies the expectations of a society obsessed with thinness and offers up tried-and-true advice on:

* How to accept yourself as you are
* Where to go, what to say, and how to find the "right" type of man
* The best cities where real women are truly appreciated
* Alternative ways to meet men -- personal ads, the Internet, invitation-only parties (and how to get invited!)
* Style tips: makeup, hair, and clothing
* "How to make love to a man big time"
* Plus lots more!

Title 38: The Fat Girl's Guide to Life

Author: Wendy Shanker

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BWendy Shanker is a fat, healthy, beautiful girl who has simply had enough. Enough of family, friends, co-workers, women's magazines, even strangers on the street, all trying (and failing) to make her thin. She finally decided, "If I can't take it off, I'm going to take it on."

With a mandate to change the world-and the energy to do it-Wendy shows how media madness, corporate greed, and even the most well-intentioned loved ones prey on our shrink-to-fit minds, if not our shrink-to-fit bodies. She invites people of all sizes, shapes, and dissatisfactions to trade self-loathing for self-tolerance, celebrity worship for reality reverence, and a carb-free life for a guilt-free Krispy Kreme.

Wendy explores dieting debacles, full-figured fashions, and feminist philosophy while guiding you through exercise clubs, doctor's offices, shopping malls, and even the bedroom. She believes that you can be fit and fat, even as the weight loss industry conspires to make you think otherwise. The Fat Girl's Guide to Life invites you to step off the scale and weigh the issues for yourself.

Title 39: When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies : Freeing Yourself from Food and Weight Obsession

Author: JANE R. HIRSCHMAN

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In this revolutionary new book, bestselling authors Carol Munter and Jane Hirschmann explore the myriad reasons why women cling to diets despite overwhelming evidence that diets don't work. In fact, diets turn us into compulsive eaters who are obsessed with food and weight.

Munter and Hirschmann call this syndrome "Bad Body Fever" and demonstrate how "bad body thoughts" are clues to our emotional lives. They explore the difficulties women encounter replacing dieting with demand feeding. And finally, they teach us how to think about our problems rather than eat about them--so that food can resume its proper place in our lives.

Title 40: Big Fat Lies: The Truth about Your Weight and Your Health

Author: Glenn A. Gaesser

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In this authoritative, easy-to-read book, Glenn Gaesser, an exercise physiologist, challenges the conventional wisdom that excess body fat poses a danger to health. He explains that it is the fat in your diet — not your weight — that is harmful, and presents scientific evidence of the benefits of body fat. In addition, Gaesser presents a “20/20 program” for achieving optimal health and metabolic fitness through 20 minutes of daily moderate exercise and a complex-carbohydrate eating plan. This edition includes a new introduction and updated research. “Challenges the common beliefs that ‘thin is best’ and ‘weight loss improves health.’ ” — Pat Lyons, author of Great Shape

Title 41: Fat and Proud: Politics of Size

Author: Charlotte Cooper

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I was born in 1968, about the same time as the fat rights movement. I have reached maturity alongside the movement, and this book represents a coming to power for both of us.

Much of my life has been spent trying to come to terms with my fat body. I grew up feeling a deep discomfort that I was, and am, physically different to most people in my life, and this difference was always encoded as shameful. As a young woman I nurtured fantasies of slicing off the fat parts of my body. I dieted, and endured periods of compulsive exercising. I wanted only to see the mythical thin woman who was supposed to be hiding inside me. When I became clear that this ghost was never going to put in an appearance I had to find another way of living.

I first began to think of alternatives to fat hatred when I was a teenager. My ideas grew out of my nascent interest in feminism and sexual politics, and also, it must be said, from my disappointment with texts that are still considered definitive. I rejected books such as Suzie Orbach's 'Fat Is A Feminist Issue' because of their false assumptions about fat people. I wanted something more than this.

By the time I began to read books such as 'Shadow On a Tightrope' and 'Being Fat is Not a Sin,' I was not only developing a deeper understanding of fat rights issues, but also working through the difficult process of integrating my ideals into my life. What helped and continues to support e was my increasing awareness of a movement of people and organisations who felt and believed similar things, and were actively challenging fat-hating attitudes. As a feminist I was excited that many of these initiatives were instigated by women. My involvement with the fat rights movement has enabled me to address both the fat hatred around me, and that which existed within myself. It has also given me a space in which to develop my own ideas about what it is to be fat.

Today I feel lucky to be fat. The difference my fatness connotes has been, and continues to be, one of the most challenging and enriching areas of my life. I am very proud of my difference, I feel like a survivor, and I think my perspective as a fat person is a benefaction that has made me special.

Title 42: Fat Girl Dances with Rocks

Author: Susan Stinson

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"[This novel] reads like a good movie with fast paced scenes; crisp language tightly edited for excess and real dialogue. The narrative line rocks with all the smooth rhythm of good back up for the 'very hot' lead characters: seventeen year-old Char and her best high school buddy Felice Ventura...The author Susan Stinson is at her revealing best piling on externl to create a dizzy, sexy story of female adolescent-teenage desire and discovery." Lambda Bal detaiook Report, Jyl Lynn Felman

"In this sensual, gently stinging first novel, Susan Stinson's language dreams, drives, and dances, loving the taste of everything it describes in a thoroughly American universe. Char is a character I won't forget, who fills my heart as she begins to take in the immense truth of her own." Joan Larkin

"Susan Stinson's first novel is full of big, beautiful language and her main character, Char, is one of the best teenaged heroines I've ever met. Stinson's writing is music to my ears, and Fat Girl Dances With Rocks makes me want to do the twist!" Judith Katz.

Title 43: Revolting Bodies : The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity

Author: Kathleen

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The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity is a difficult read. It doesn't have the light flair of Fat!So? or the humour of The Fat Girl's Guide to Life. It isn't full of funny cartoons are interesting sidebars. It is a serious look into the history and politics surrounding fat and the people attached to it. Through a series of chapters which read like short essays, LeBesco delves into the world of fat from a different perspective.

Title 44: Live Large

Author: Cheri K.

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I loved this little book. Erdman's voice is not condescending and her concepts are legitimate and easy to understand. You can journal along with each prompt or just use it for bedside or bathroom reading. Each page is filled with valuable insight into our bodies, psyche and the world around us. She doesn't just tell you how it is but how you can choose to make a difference.

Title 45: Yoga Just My Size

Author: Megan Garcia

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No longer exclusive to the sleek and muscular bodies of the world, yoga has become a major form of physical activity for the plus size woman. This past year Megan Garcia, in association with Just My Size (now called JMS) produced a wonderful video for plus size yoga enthusiasts.

Title 46: Zaftig: Well Rounded Erotica

Author: Hanne Blank

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Humans are sexual beings--all humans, not just the skinny ones, not just the straight ones. Sex writer, editor and educator Hanne Blank calls Zaftig a "celebration of those big bodies, those round bodies, those chubby-plump voluptuous-heavy fat bodies of all sizes of large". And indeed it is full of voluptuous and "juicy" feminine bodies. Yes, world, fat people have sex. All kinds of it.

Title 47: Fat Girl: A True Story

Author: Judith Moore

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"Fat Girl" is about Moore's childhood. Low self esteem ruled her life because of her abusive mother and grandmother. Days that were suppose to be filled with laughter, friends and special moments, were filled with routine torments of pinching, hair pulling and name calling. All supposedly because she was her father's daughter. The only sense of well being young Julia experienced was when she ate.

Title 48: What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology

Author: Donna Jarrell

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Title 49: Strange History of Suzanne LaFleshe

Author: Susan Koppelman (editor)

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Spanning the 1890s through the 1990s, this unique, daring, and vital collection explores the many psychological and emotional tensions in women’s relationships to—and perceptions of—their physical selves. Addressing the peculiarities, the delights, and the shames of body politics that reside in the flesh, these stories of bodies that refuse to be contained deftly and astutely comment on popular notions of acceptable body types and behaviors. With tender lyricism, acclaimed author Mary E. Wilkins Freeman examines the feelings of an obese woman forced into the humiliating role of circus freak in order to pay off family debt. In “The Stout Miss Hopkins’s Bicycle,” the title character suffers the indignities of the most recent weight-loss craze, only to discover love where she least expects it. For the women in “The Feeder,” eating becomes the only form of control they have in their husband-dominated lives, until they can relate to one another as allies rather than enemies. The confident woman of Hollis Seamon’s title story nurtures her ever-expanding body while providing nourishment to a young woman struggling with anorexia. Even as some women starve themselves to squeeze into socially proscribed roles enforced by the men in their lives, so too do women intentionally and methodically eat in order to burst those same constraints. For some women, fatness is an isolating and powerless position; for others, like Eliza in “A Mammoth Undertaking,” gaining weight is a choice, a self-gratifying process that leads to transcendence. Often witty, sometimes painful, and always revelatory, the stories in this anthology offer a measured assessment of the rules, unspoken and otherwise, that govern women’s bodies. Whether celebrating bodies deemed transgressive or simply acknowledging that such bodies exist, the volume’s diverse literary representations of fatness render these bodies brilliantly, unapologetically visible.

Title 50: Tipping the Scales of Justice: Fighting Weight Based Discrimination

Author: Sondra Solovay

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Title 51: Weight Bias: Nature, Consequences, and Remedies

Author: Kelly D. Brownell

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Title 52: Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West

Author: Peter N. Stearns

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Title 53: Unruly Appetites: Erotic Stories

Author: Hanne Blank

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Title 54: All of Me: A Voluptuous Tale: A Voluptuous Tale

Author: Venise Berry

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Title 55: The Fat Friend

Author: Julie Edelson

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Title 56: Too Big to Miss: An Odelia Grey Mystery (An Odelia Grey Mystery)

Author: Sue Ann Jaffarian

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Title 57: At Large (A Josephine Fuller Mystery)

Author: Lynn Murray

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Queen-sized investigator Josephine Fuller has an appealing (i.e., not self-deprecating) sense of humor; moreover she's comfortable with her body and confident in her abilities. In her third adventure (after Large Target and Larger Than Death), she wrestles with the murder of her ex-husband's...

Title 53: Unruly Appetites: Erotic Stories

Author: Hanne Blank

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