Ross Mclure, an ambitious and rather cocky graduate student, is given the chance of a lifetime: to conduct an experiment  that  tests the true liberation of the liberal-minded.   After answering an ad for a fourth roommate to share space in an alternative living situation, Ross is invited to move in.    His roommates are a homosexual, a practitioner of Wicca and a person with cerebral palsy.    As part of his experiment, Ross decides to become the resident nudist. His roommates reluctantly accept his lifestyle (lest they be hypocrites), and the experiment continues exactly as planned¿until Ross meets a homeless man named Maurice.    Now the experiment changes.

Creamy Nougat

Smith, Erec

Literature & Fiction

Community Pr

Fat Tactics: The Rhetoric and Structure of the Fat Acceptance Movement

Review\nIn this slender volume, Smith (rhetoric, York College) offers readers an overview of fat activism, understanding, acceptance, and discrimination, as well as challenges to traditional European whiteness and gender. He reviews medical issues, social issues, and ideologies as they relate to standards, activism, normalization, and intersectionality. Smith's approach focuses especially on language and rhetoric; issues addressed include the fat acceptance movement (and its critics), fat as a feminist issue, fat studies, language, and the issue's inclusion with civil rights and disability rights (all contentious issues). Smith confronts the medical community and discourse with its war on fat as the last acceptable form of discrimination, and challenges the reader's notions of fat and fatness. Importantly, he also outlines groups, websites, and activism that relates to ideology, discourse, and structuration—all of which offer avenues for further study to the interested reader. This book brings to light many important issues in an area that is often overlooked.\nSumming Up: Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty and professionals. ― Choice\nTo help bring fat activism into the fold, Fat Tactics serves as an important tool for fat studies scholars and activists who wish to take this work, such as personal stories, social media campaigns or other online representations of fatness, and situate it within broader contexts to further the political and legal status of fat people. Smith beautifully describes the intangible spirit of fat community. . . . Fat Tactics reignites the enthusiasm for the important, necessary, and thoughtful fat activist work that aims to strategically infiltrate normative discourses to achieve tangible success. ― Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society\nA comprehensive and thoroughly researched journey into the intricacies of the fat acceptance movement. As a leader in the Health at Every Size® (HAES®) movement for the past 2 decades, I found the work to be compelling and illuminating, particularly in helping to connect the work that we do in HAES with a deeper understanding of the intersectionality and privilege involved. -- Jon Robison, Michigan State University\nThis book explores and analyzes the ways fat acceptance activists have advocated through language and tactical action. Using Anthony Giddens’ concept of Structuration in the make-up of ideology, the book identifies how fat acceptance activists use signification, domination, and legitimation to strengthen their cause. Thus, their actions are both rhetorical and tactical. 
Fat—considered a descriptor and not a negative label among activists—is highly stigmatized for arbitrary reasons in various areas of life ranging from the fashion industry to health care. This books shows how fat acceptance activists work to remedy this situation.

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Lexington Books

A Critique of Anti-racism in Rhetoric and Composition: The Semblance of Empowerment

A Critique of Anti-racism in Rhetoric and Composition: The Semblance of Empowerment critiques current antiracist ideology in rhetoric and composition, arguing that it inadvertently promotes a deficit-model of empowerment for both students and scholars. Erec Smith claims that empowerment theory-which promotes individual, communal, and strategic efficacy-is missing from most antiracist initiatives, which instead often abide by what Smith refers to as a "primacy of identity": an over-reliance on identity, particularly a victimized identity, to establish ethos. Scholars of rhetoric, composition, communication, and critical race theory will find this book particularly useful.

Social Sciences

Product Description 
A Critique of Anti-racism in Rhetoric and Composition: The Semblance of Empowerment 
 critiques current antiracist ideology in rhetoric and composition, arguing that it inadvertently promotes a deficit-model of empowerment for both students and scholars. Erec Smith claims that empowerment theory—which promotes individual, communal, and strategic efficacy—is missing from most antiracist initiatives, which instead often abide by what Smith refers to as a "primacy of identity”: an over-reliance on identity, particularly a victimized identity, to establish ethos. Scholars of rhetoric, composition, communication, and critical race theory will find this book particularly useful. 
 About the Author 
Erec Smith 
 is associate professor of rhetoric and composition at York College of Pennsylvania.

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Fat Tactics: The Rhetoric and Structure of the Fat Acceptance Movement

A Critique of Anti-racism in Rhetoric and Composition: The Semblance of Empowerment

A Critique of Anti-racism in Rhetoric and Composition: The Semblance of Empowerment