{"product_id":"fat-by-hanne-blank-9781501333286","title":"Fat","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublic enemy. Crucial macronutrient. Health risk. Punchline. Moneymaker. Epidemic. Sexual fetish. Moral failing. Necessary bodily organ. Conveyor of flavour. Freak-show spectacle. Never mind the stereotype, fat is never sedentary: its definitions, identities, and meanings are manifold and in constant motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDemonised in medicine and public policy, adored by chefs and nutritional faddists (and let’s face it, most of us who eat), simultaneously desired and abhorred when it comes to sex, and continually courted by a multi-billion-pound fitness and weight-loss industry, for so many people “fat” is ironically nothing more than an insult or a state of despair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Hanne Blank's \u003ci\u003eFat\u003c\/i\u003e we find fat as state, as possession, as metaphor, as symptom, as object of desire, intellectual and carnal. Here, “feeling fat” and literal fat merge, blurring the boundaries and infusing one another with richer, fattier meanings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eObject Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430685425900,"sku":"9781501333286","price":21.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781501333286.jpg?v=1774558741","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/fat-by-hanne-blank-9781501333286","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}