Vegans Who Run

Susie Orbach (1978) penned Fat is a Feminist Issue at a time when the women’s movement was differentiating itself from, although borne of, the male New Left. Feminist theory and practice recognized that the personal is political. The socalled private sphere concealed very public and political matters such as who does housework and childcare, how sexuality is transacted, birth control, career primacy, and the objectification and self-objectification of women’s bodies. There is by now a vast literature (e.g., Bordo 1993; Hesse-Biber 1996) on the specific issue of women’s weight and self-esteem.