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Women En Large is a powerful, positively subversive debut. Those who prefer to keep women ashamed, starved and, preoccupied are sure to be horrified.
Women En Large is a powerful, positively subversive debut. Those who prefer to keep women ashamed, starved and, preoccupied are sure to be horrified.
– Susan Kano, Author, Making Peace with Food
I decided that I was never again going to allow someone to victimize me because of my size. Furthermore, I decided to enjoy myself the way I was. I have a voluptuous body and a very sensual nature. I'm creative, intelligent, charming, and lush. What's not to like?
-- April Miller, quoted (and photographed) in the book
Laurie Toby Edison ... worked in Women En Large to contest the ways in which fat women had been given an outsider status, and were made to become invisible in contemporary art practices.... The book format made fat acceptance and bodily empowerment, along with the trials and tribulations of being a fat woman in contemporary U.S. culture, accessible to a wide, international audience. It also provided a space in which the women who took part in the image-making were able to communicate intimately with the viewer through their own words.
--Stefanie Snider, in Fat Studies, Vol 1., #1
To look in the mirror and see yourself, all of yourself, and to be pleased and satisfied. Should it be an impossible dream? Or is it something we all, each and every one of us, deserve?
-- Debbie Notkin, from the introduction
... the nude women in Women En Large: Images of Fat Nudes have a certain majesty, the unabashedness of Henry Moore sculptures. They have escaped. And they're enough to convince you that clothes, not flesh, are what make fat people look diminished.
Tracy Young, Allure Magazine