About Women En Large - Debbie Notkin:
Debbie Notkin - Enlarging: Politics and Society
(Women En Large page 91)

As a fat woman myself, I had a lot to learn when doing this book. The most important thing I learned was the one that should have been most obvious: the label "fat woman" tells you only two of the hundreds of things you need to know about a person to understand her. Fat women are rich and poor; of African, Asian, European and other descent; big and small; powerful and weak; interesting and boring; fulfilled and constrained; professionals and unemployed; athletes and couch potatoes; artists and mathematicians; lesbian, queer, bisexual, transgendered and straight; disabled and temporarily able-bodied; optimistic and depressed; fundamentalist and radical; mothers, office workers, laborers, and sybarites; beautiful, good looking and ordinary looking. ...

the quick description of this book is that it's pictures of happy naked fat ladies.

the long description is too long to go here, but suffice it to say; if you are either fat or a woman, or someone who loves someone who is, and you are trying to not hate your body, you need to read this book.

i have a copy, and i'm willing to let you read it, if you're local. just for the record.