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Bountiful Women: Large Women´s Secrets for Living the Life they desire [offsite link]
This book is both a celebration and a how-to: affirming size while offering strategies for handling challenging situations such as negotiating a tight squeeze on an airplane or fielding judgmental comments about size. Filled with practical ideas, Bountiful Women is about the many choices available to large women today.

Plus Style - the Plus Size Guide to Looking Great [offsite link]
Practical, personal and easy to use, Plus Style is an indispensible guide to looking and feeling great for the millions of plus-size women who now demand fashion as well as fit. Suzan Nanfeldt is a leading consultant on plus-size fashions. With an informative blend of upbeat text and attractive illustrations, she highlights the basic body types and shows how to turn well-chosen clothes into a signature style using color and accessories

Real Fitness for Real Women [offsite link]
A Unique Workout Programme for Plus-Size Woman by Rochelle Rice and Kathy Silberger.Most exercise books, videos, and gyms, frankly, are demoralizing for large-size women. They usually emphasize the goal of slimness, with impossibly slender women demonstrating exercise routines that would be uncomfortable, even risky, for large women. Rice, instead, studied the biomechanics of large women and developed a six-week, 25-exercise program based on their particular needs

The Invisible Woman: Confronting Weight Prejudice in America [offsite link]
A well researched book into the pervasiveness of Weight Prejudice in American Society.

Wake Up, I´m Fat! by Camryn Manheim [offsite link]
This memoir is by turns funny ("If Barbie were a real woman, she´d have to walk on all fours due to her proportions") and excruciating.

Women Who Run with the Wolves [offsite link]
"Within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. But she is an endangered species. In WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES, Dr. Estés unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, and stories, many from her own family, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature."

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