Fat Is A Feminist Issue Summary

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In the article “Fat Is a Feminist Issue”, Susie Orbach claims that being fat and the impulsion to overeat are serious and painful experiences of the women involved. Women’s appearance are socially constructed and largely by males. I agree that it is intense of women being fat in our society and women become “feminine” through other people’s assumptions and expectations. Orbach is surly right about the society is putting too much pressure on women being fat, because women are expected to strive for beauty, a beauty is defined by men’s of what they would like women to be. There are different ideals of feminist beauty at different times and different places. Women’s bodies are manipulated by these ideal beauty and encouraged to be passive

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