A LIBRARIAN’S ORIENTATION
What this book explores
A journalist examines anti-fat bias, parenting, medicine, food culture, and what children learn about bodies.
EDITORIAL NOTE
Why it’s in the Library
It makes body dignity practical by tracing how ordinary language and institutions teach hierarchy. The book helps travelers examine harm that can hide inside concern, discipline, or health advice.
Good starting place if…
You want to understand how family talk, medicine, schools, food culture, and wellness messaging shape children's relationships with bodies and weight.
Know before you begin…
Sole-Smith writes as a journalist drawing on research, reporting, and family experience. The book challenges weight-centered health assumptions but is not individualized medical or eating-disorder care, and health decisions require context-sensitive clinicians.