PositiveTimes Literary Supplement\"...a potent and unsettling piece of social philosophy – a broadside against fatphobia ... Manne clinically dissects a life warped from within and without by norms governing personal appearance and size. She revisits the searing words of childhood bullies, the cruel comments of graduate-school colleagues and cycle after cycle of dieting. In doing so she works to expose and contest the falsehoods of fatphobia ... As a polemic, Unshrinking works. Manne’s case for the harmfulness of fatphobia is compelling. But the book’s greatest strength is its author’s personal narrative and the sense of justified grievance that runs through the prose like a line of fire. And the weaknesses of the work, such as they are, can be figured as corollaries of this strength. Manne aspires to the wholesale reform of our fatphobic society, but the personal focus of the book functions to limit the breadth of its social application ... demonstrates amply the importance of aspiring to care a little less about the unruly behaviour of our irrepressible flesh.\
