2024-04-15
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.
I'm head of programming, Connor Boyle.
We're discussing body image for this episode with writer and philosophy professor Kate Mann.
Her new book, unshrinking, asks questions about how our own self image can be distorted by society's prejudices and expectations.
In conversation with Kate for this episode is Sophie McBain.
She's contributing editor at the New Statesman magazine and writes about books and ideas for the Guardian and the Sunday Times.
Here's Sophie with more.
Kate Mann is an associate professor of philosophy at Cornell University and the author of Down Girl and entitled two books that explored and unpicked the logic of misogyny and male entitlement.
In her latest book, unshrinking how to fight fatphobia, she turns her analytic lens to prejudice and discrimination against larger bodies, which she says is on the rise.
She blends the political and the personal to explore what it would require to build a world that views and treats all people as equal, regardless of their body shape.
Welcome to intelligence Squared, Kate.
Thanks so much for having me, Sophie.