Sabrina Strings has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 22 ratings. The most-rated is Fearing the Black Body.
Fearing the Black Body
Summary
How the female body has been racialized for more than 200 years There is an obesity epidemic in this country, and poor Black women are particularly stigmatized as "diseased" and a burden on the public health-care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat Black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than 200 years ago. Strings weaves together an eye-opening historical narrative ranging from the Renaissance to the current moment, analyzing important works of art, newspaper and magazine articles, and scientific literature and medical journals - where fat bodies were once praised - showing that fat phobia, as it relates to Black women, did not originate with medical findings, but with the Enlightenment era belief that fatness was evidence of "savagery" and racial inferiority. The author argues that the contemporary ideal of slenderness is, at its very core, racialized and racist. Indeed, it was not until the early 20th century, when racialized attitudes against fatness were already entrenched in the culture, that the medical establishment began its crusade against obesity. An important and original work, Fearing the Black Body argues convincingly that fat phobia isn't about health at all, but rather a means of using the body to validate race, class, and gender prejudice.
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Wild son [French Version]
Summary
Une romance bikers explosive ! Il pensait avoir trouvé le juste équilibre, fait table rase du passé. Son club, sa famille, son royaume. Elle voulait recommencer à zéro, loin des siens. Sa liberté, sa folie, sa vie. Voilà cinq ans que Casey a repris le flambeau après son père à la présidence du club des Wild Crows, un gang de bikers qu'il a su remettre dans la légalité au fil du temps et grâce à de nombreux efforts. Alors que les affaires fleurissent et que son engagement quotidien porte ses fruits, le destin met une jeune femme sur son chemin. Charlie, une tornade explosive capable de tout balayer sur son passage, y compris les cicatrices d'un passé trop sombre. Pourtant, Casey le sait : il ne faut ne jamais oublier. Afin de se débarrasser de ses propres fantômes, le jeune homme s'est endurci et ses responsabilités l'ont rendu méfiant, à juste titre. Le club est sa raison de vivre. Ses frères avant tout le reste. Alors pourquoi la venue de Charlie le fait-il tant douter de ses convictions ? Quelles raisons le poussent-il ainsi à creuser ce dossier "à haut risque", marqué d'un sigle ennemi ? Quand la tentation devient si dangereuse, doit-il fuir pour protéger les siens ou succomber pour obtenir les réponses tant espérées ?
©2019 Blandine P. Martin (P)2020 Audible Studios