Tuesday May 03, 2022

Misogyny, Fatphobia, and the Morality of Size featuring Dr. Kate Manne

Dr. Kate Manne joins the Body Myth for a Conversation about the material, social, and political costs of living in a larger body, how health concerns have been weaponized against fat people, the moral degradation anyone whose body strays from Western and racist ideals experiences, her own history trying to shrink her body to unrealistic and unsustainable proportions, and the work she’s done to make peace with herself.

Also in this episode:

-Dr. Mannes essay in The New York Times “Diet Culture is Unhealthy. It’s Also Immoral”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/opinion/diet-resolution.html

-Her new book-in-progress about the history of fatphobia

-How her earliest encounters with misogyny became the impetus for her work

Kate Manne is an associate professor at the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University. Her research is primarily in moral, feminist, and social philosophy. She is the author of two books: Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women (Crown/Penguin, 2020). Manne is currently working on a book on fatphobia, and regularly writes opinion pieces, essays, and reviews in venues including The New York Times, The Boston Review, Politico, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post.

LINKS:

Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

www.katemanne.net

Twitter: @kate_manne

Ronit is a writer, teacher, and mom who has taught elementary school through high school and whose writing has been featured in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, Salon, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Writer’s Digest, Scary Mommy, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about her body image struggles and the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh was named Finalist in both the 2021 Best Book Awards and the 2021 Book of the Year Award and a 2021 Best True Crime Book by Book Riot. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts’ 2020 Eludia Award and will be published in 2022. She is also host and producer of the podcasts And Then Everything Changed and Let’s Talk Memoir.

More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com

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Misogyny, Fatphobia, and the Morality of Size featuring Dr. Kate Manne

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