Harper College offices will be closed Monday, September 2 in observance of Labor Day.
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
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
Murphy, Julie, 1985- author. 2015
Murphy, Julie, 1985- author. 2018
Fashioning Fat: Inside Plus-Size Modeling
Czerniawski, Amanda M. 2015
Quintero, Isabel. 2014
Garcia Schaper, Anna. 1920
The (Other) F Word: A Celebration of the Fat and Fierce
Manfredi, Angie. 2019
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
Forth, Christopher E.; Leitch, Alison.; Murray, Samantha, 1978-. 2014
Dade, Olivia, author. 2021
Dade, Olivia. 2022
If the shoe fits : a meant to be novel
Murphy, Julie, 1985- author. 2021
Stayman-London, Kate, author. 2020
The summer of Jordi Perez (and the best burger in Los Angeles)
Spalding, Amy, author. 2018
