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Body Positivity Books

Picture of main character in film Your Fat Friend

Harper College is screening Your Fat Friend on November 12th at 1pm in Z-102. See details and sign up information for the event here

 

Check out our list of books available through the Library about body positivity! Click on the title link of a book to see availability and location information. Titles include both print and electronic books. Happy Reading!

 

The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies. 

Farrell, Amy Erdman.; Farrell, Amy Erdman, editor. 2023 

EVERY BODY : a first conversation about bodies. 

Madison, Megan, author.; Ralli, Jessica, author.; Andrews, Tequitia, illustrator. 2023 

The body liberation project : how understanding racism and diet culture helps cultivate joy and build collective freedom 

King, Chrissy, author.; Penguin Random House, publisher. 2023 

Body Stories: in and out and with and through fat 

Andrews, Jill ; Friedman, May; Jill Andrew ; May Friedman. 2020 

You have the right to remain fat 

Tovar, Virgie, 1982- author. 2018 

Hot & heavy : fierce fat girls on life, love & fashion 

Tovar, Virgie, 1982- author. 2012 

The self-love revolution : radical body positivity for girls of color 

Tovar, Virgie, 1982- author. 2020 

Embrace your size : my own body positivity 

Hara (Mangaka), author.; Nibley, Athena, translator.; Nibley, Alethea, translator.; Christie, Chiho, letterer. 2022 

The politics of size : perspectives from the fat acceptance movement 

Chastain, Ragen, editor. 2015 

Fattily Ever After: A Black Fat Girl's Guide to Living Life Unapologetically 

Yeboah, Stephanie. 2020 

The body is not an apology: the power of radical self-love 

Taylor, Sonya Renee. 2018 

The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color 

Tovar, Virgie. 2020 

The Metamorphoses of Fat : A History of Obesity 

Vigarello, Georges, author.; Delogu, C. Jon. 2013 

Fat blame : how the war on obesity victimizes women and children 

Herndon, April Michelle, author. 2014 

Fat on film : gender, race and body size in contemporary Hollywood cinema 

Plotz, Barbara, author. 2020 

Bodies out of bounds : fatness and transgression 

Braziel, Jana Evans, 1967-; LeBesco, Kathleen, 1970-. 2001 

Dumplin' 

Murphy, Julie, 1985- author. 2015 

Puddin' 

Murphy, Julie, 1985- author. 2018 

Fashioning Fat: Inside Plus-Size Modeling 

Czerniawski, Amanda M. 2015 

Gabi, a Girl in Pieces 

Quintero, Isabel. 2014 

Wishbone. 

Garcia Schaper, Anna. 1920 

The (Other) F Word: A Celebration of the Fat and Fierce 

Manfredi, Angie. 2019 

Fat chance, Charlie Vega 

Maldonado, Crystal, author. 2021 

This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare 

Sidibe, Gabourey. 2017 

Bad fat Black girl : notes from a trap feminist 

Bowen, Sesali, author. 2021 

What we don't talk about when we talk about fat 

Gordon, Aubrey, author. 2020 

Fat off, fat on : a big bitch manifesto 

Kent, Clarkisha, author. 2023 

I Do It with the Lights On: And 10 More Discoveries on the Road to a Blissfully Shame-Free Life 

Thore, Whitney Way. 2016 

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia 

Strings, Sabrina. 2019 

Unshrinking : how to face fatphobia 

Manne, Kate, author. 2024 

"You just need to lose weight" : and 19 other myths about fat people 

Gordon, Aubrey, author. 2023 

The strange history of Suzanne LaFleshe and other stories of women and fatness 

Koppelman, Susan. 2003 

Belly of the beast : the politics of anti-fatness as anti-blackness 

Harrison, Da'Shaun, 1996- author.; Laymon, Kiese, writer of foreword. 2021 

Feeding Desire: Fatness, beauty, and sexuality among a Saharan people 

Popenoe, Rebecca. 2004 

The evolutionary biology of human body fatness : thrift and control 

Wells, Jonathan C. K. 2010 

Fat : culture and materiality 

Forth, Christopher E.; Leitch, Alison.; Murray, Samantha, 1978-. 2014 

All the feels : a novel 

Dade, Olivia, author. 2021 

Ship Wrecked: A Novel 

Dade, Olivia. 2022 

If the shoe fits : a meant to be novel 

Murphy, Julie, 1985- author. 2021 

One to watch : a novel 

Stayman-London, Kate, author. 2020 

The summer of Jordi Perez (and the best burger in Los Angeles) 

Spalding, Amy, author. 2018 

Last Updated: 12/13/24