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Title: Zaftig: The Case for Curves by Edward St. Paige ISBN: 1-883211-17-4 Publisher: Darling & Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Just About Perfect!
Comment: Beautifully bound, beautiful captions, and of course beautiful art work. It's hard to make a better purchase than this book, I'm glad I bought it instead of a wieght loss book!
My only quarrel is that the pieces mostly show full, plump women who don't fit the definition of "fat", and there are few black women, although the author seemed to be trying to focus on classical paintings, so it can only be expected since it is no doubt difficult to find classic works of art where the subject is a person of African descent.
But overall, I love this book and flip through it's pages often, it's a great mood lifter. Believe me, this is more likely to make you feel good about yourself than any diet pill claims to.
Rating: 4
Summary: Lovely, curvy women
Comment: This book has prints of paintings, drawings, etchings, sculpture, photographs, and advertisements featuring curvy women, some highlighting their bodies, and others their faces. The prints are beautiful, and some of the best art in the world is featured. I especially love Rembrandt's Bathsheba (from the Louvre) and Reni's Cleopatra (from the Pitti, I just saw it during my stay in Florence). I do wish that the pages with the prints had the titles, artists, and locations of the works right there. Instead, the titles and artists are listed in an index at the end, and there is no mention of where these artworks are, so that if one is interested in seeing a painting or sculpture in real life, one can pursue this. But on the plus side, the book is easy to read, and very enjoyable visually.
The book is divided up by topic (subject or artist), these being: Fashions in Body Type, The Cult of Thinness, The Goodness of Zaftig, Eve, Venus, Other Goddesses, Women as Symbols and Personifications, Cleopatra, Bathsheba, Hilda, Rembrandt van Rijn, Pieter Paul Rubens, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Boris Kustodiev, Aristide Maillol, Gaston Lchaise, Reginald Marsh, Pablo Picasso, An Opulent Age, Opera Divas, The Stage, On the Beach, Youthful Plumpness, Motherhood, Confidently Voluptuous, and Women's Bodies in Other Cultures.
As an aside, which is more just a comment than a criticism: with all of its pictures celebrating size, it must be admitted that most of them are of fair, white women; women that have pale skin and women of "other cultures" are fit into the last chapter, and they are mostly other cultures through the European gaze (Italian, French, Swiss). While St. Paige argues that most people and most cultures have preferred heavier women to thin ones, can we also not argue that many people prefer paler people too, as evidenced by the images in the book. But I'm glad that there is an attempt to put people of colour in the book.
The author puts a lot of emphasis on the idea that women are naturally curvy, and that thinness is freakish. While I agree that women tend toward curviness, not all women can be a size 20 either, just like not everyone can be a size 2. And the argument of "naturalness" doesn't sit well with me, as it has been used to justify many unpleasant things. I am not a zaftig woman, but I appreciate the beauty on these pages.
Rating: 5
Summary: Zaftig is enchanting!
Comment: I loved this celebration of curvaceous women! After reading St. Paige's chapter on the Cult of Thinness I felt only relief to be back in the realm of reality. The author has culled from history & the masters of art, images celebrating the joy of zaftig. Certainly this book needs to be on everyone's gift list, it is luscious with full-color prints, succulent sayings & meaningful musings all about the love of full bodied women.
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Title: Zaftig: Well Rounded Erotica by Hanne Blank ISBN: 1573441228 Publisher: Cleis Press Pub. Date: 09 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Women En Large: Images of Fat Nudes by Laurie Toby Edison, Debbie Notkin ISBN: 1885495005 Publisher: Books in Focus Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Bountiful Women: Large Women's Secrets for Living the Life They Desire by Bonnie Bernell, Carmen Renee Berry ISBN: 1885171471 Publisher: Wildcat Canyon Press Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Wake Up, I'm Fat! by Camryn Manheim ISBN: 0767903633 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 09 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: FAT!SO? : Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size by Marilyn Wann ISBN: 0898159954 Publisher: Ten Speed Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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