Fat Activism (Second Edition)

A Radical Social Movement

Charlotte Cooper

• Publisher: Intellect Books
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781910849309
• eBook ISBN: 9781910849323
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Scienze sociali
• Subtopic: Studi di genere

In this new edition of her accessible autoethnography of fat feminist activism in the West, Charlotte Cooper revisits and discusses her activism in the context of recent shifts in the movement. The new preface explores the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on fat people and fat activism and how Black Lives Matter is inspiring new forms of activism. Cooper issues a call to action in Fat Studies and offers alternatives to current public health approaches to Diabetes. 

What is fat activism and why is it important? To answer this question, Charlotte Cooper presents an expansive grassroots study that traces the forty-year history of international fat activism and grounds its actions in their proper historical and geographical contexts. She details fat activist methods, analyses existing literature in the field, challenges long-held assumptions that uphold systemic fatphobia, and makes clear how crucial feminism, queer theory and anti-racism are to the lifeblood of the movement. She also considers fat activism's proxy concerns, including body image, body positivity, the obesity epidemic and fat stigma.

Combining rigorous scholarship with personal, accessible writing, 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. 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, 208-09;

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

allies, 44, 61, 178-79, 201

ambiguous activism, 51, 53, 85-91, 93, 109, 195, 200, 210, 215

ambivalence, 15, 17-18, 34, 37, 86, 126, 146, 153, 190, 206

anarchism, 42, 48, 195

anthropology, 155

anti-colo...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Dedication
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Undoing
• Doing
• Locating
• Travelling
• Accessing
• Queering
• Bibliography
• Index