Fat Activism (Second Edition)
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Fat Activism (Second Edition)

A Radical Social Movement

Charlotte Cooper

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Fat Activism (Second Edition)

A Radical Social Movement

Charlotte Cooper

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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.

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Year
2021
ISBN
9781910849323
Edition
2
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...

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