Saguy discusses that fat is feminism is because discusses that that women fear of gaining weight, and suffer from “poor body image” and eventually succumb to anorexia or bulimia. Furthermore, women who are considered fat are less likely to marry, and if they do marry, they’ll usually have partners of lower status. Whereas men are …show more content…
The feminist theory challenges gender inequality and gender roles in society. Additionally, Saguy’s research focuses on the disadvantages women face compared to men due to their weight. In Saguy’s research, she states that “women, and specifically African American and poor women, are more likely than men to be ‘obese’” (Page 2). Saguy shows how the patriarchy is major issue, because fat women are subject to specific forms of discrimination that they would not experience if they were a fat man or a thin woman. Ultimately, Saguy successfully gives out a hypothesis, but with her sampling, her overall generalization might be flawed. However, Saguy still succeeds in bringing light to the subject and overall connects her theory to a major sociology feminist