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Podcast: New Books in Education
Episode: Patricia Leavy and Victoria Scotti, âLow-Fat Love Storiesâ (Sense Publishers, 2017)
Description: Patricia Leavy and Victoria Scottiâs Low-Fat Love Stories (Sense Publishers, 2017) is a collection of short stories and artistic portraits focusing on womenâs dissatisfying relationships. What makes these stories different from conventional fictions is that all the stories are based on extensive interviews with women of different ages and from different racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds across the United States. In the book, readers will read extremely candid and moving personal stories, identity struggles, and painstaking self-reflection. As a product of art-based research, the book also critically interrogates how popular culture shapes womenâs self-perception, influences their understanding of roma...