Fat Activism

A Radical Social Movement

Charlotte Cooper

• Publisher: HammerOn Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781910849002
• eBook ISBN: 9781910849026
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

What is Fat Activism and why is it important?

Charlotte Cooper, a fat activist with around 30 years experience, answers this question by lifting the lid on a previously unexplored social movement and offering a fresh perspective on one of the major problems of our times.

In her expansive grassroots study she:

• Reveals details of fat activist methods and approaches and explodes myths

• Charts extensive accounts of international fat activist historical roots going back over four decades

• Explores controversies and tensions in the movement

• Shows that fat activism is an undeniably feminist and queer phenomenon

• Explains why fat activism presents exciting possibilities for anyone interested in social justice

Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement is a rare insider's view of fat people speaking about their lives and politics on their own terms. It is part of a new wave of accessible, accountable and rigorous work emerging through Research Justice and the Para-Academy.

This is the book you have been waiting for.

INDEX

1000 Fat Cranes, 156-57

A Queer and Trans Fat Activist Timeline, 41, 135, 172, 201, 207-10, 215-16

Aberystwyth, 98, 128, 130

absence of fat activism, 21-22, 32, 46, 75n43, 87

abuse, 97, 127, 131, 153;

by Erich Goode, 20, 116

academia, 4, 6-8, 10, 19, 27, 33, 40, 104, 152, 164, 180, 197, 209

access, 10, 30, 57-58, 112, 116, 132, 140, 162-63, 170-71, 175, 179, 180, 185,188-89, 199, 208-9;

to capital, 63;

to clothes, 13, 77-78;

to knowledge, 35

accessible, 70, 75, 79, 82, 94, 211-13

administrative activism, 56

age:

ageing 23, 53, 160;

all ages, 213;

sample age 43;

youth, 56, 98, 148, 211

Ahmed, Sara, 37, 52

Aldebaran, 27, 116-18, 120, 122-23, 126-27, 133, 136

alienation, 1n1, 190

Allegro Fortissimo, 54, 144, 154

alliances with other struggles, coalitions, 17, 23, 39, 120, 133-34, 144, 187, 197, 213;

See also community

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Introduction
• UNDOING
• DOING
• LOCATING
• TRAVELLING
• ACCESSING
• QUEERING
• REFERENCES
• INDEX