Fat Is a Feminist Issue

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Fat Is a Feminist Issue Playlist

by Susie Orbach, S ORBACH

20 tracks

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Nov 8, 2026

The instrumental opening moves between measured reflection and more spacious, searching sounds, echoing Orbach’s examination of how social inequality shapes ideas about fatness and thinness. The vocal half gives voice to bodily autonomy, cultural pressure, and self-acceptance; it is a thematic response to the book, not a depiction of fictional characters.

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20 songs

1

Take Five

The Dave Brubeck Quartet · Time Out

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2

Song For My Father

Horace Silver · Song For My Father

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3

Misty

Erroll Garner · The Original Misty

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4

Autumn Leaves

Cannonball Adderley · Somethin' Else (Rudy Van Gelder Edition)

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Waltz For Debby

Bill Evans · New Jazz Conceptions

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Medley: "Spartacus" Love Theme / Nardis

Bill Evans · The Solo Sessions

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My Favorite Things

John Coltrane · My Favorite Things (Deluxe Edition)

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Cantaloupe Island

Herbie Hancock · The Complete Blue Note Sixties Sessions

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9

Blue Rondo à la Turk

The Dave Brubeck Quartet · Time Out

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10

St. Thomas

Sonny Rollins · Saxophone Colossus

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11

You Don't Own Me

Lesley Gore · Lesley Gore Sings Of Mixed-Up Hearts

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12

I Am Woman

Helen Reddy · I Am Woman

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13

Respect

Aretha Franklin · I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

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14

Just A Girl

No Doubt · Tragic Kingdom

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15

Free Your Mind

En Vogue · Funky Divas

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16

What's Up?

4 Non Blondes · Bigger, Better, Faster, More !

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Beautiful

Christina Aguilera · Stripped

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18

Video

India.Arie · Acoustic Soul

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19

The Pill

Loretta Lynn · Back To The Country

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20

She Works Hard For The Money

Donna Summer · She Works Hard For The Money

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