| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 298 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Undoing -- Doing -- Locating -- Travelling -- Accessing -- Queering -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Preface to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- UNDOING. Proxies -- Fat activism is about body positivity -- Fat activism is NAAFA -- Fat activism is about eating disorders and body image -- Fat activism is about obesity and health -- Developing fat activist research -- Standpoint -- Theories -- Foucault, power, social movements -- The killjoy -- Research Justice -- Scavenging qualitative methodology -- Methods -- Doing activism -- Talking to fat activists -- Using and thinking about archives -- DOING. This is fat activism -- Political process fat activism -- Activist communities -- Fat activism as cultural work -- Existing cultural forms -- New cultural forms -- Micro fat activism -- Ambiguous fat activism -- A meta social movement -- LOCATING. My awakening -- Understanding contexts -- Fat feminism -- Why fat feminism is obscure -- Fragile historicising -- Political rifts -- Occupation -- Some starting points -- The Fat-In -- NAAFA -- Anti-feminism -- The Fat Underground -- Formation -- Theorising fat oppression -- Strategies -- Struggles -- Legacies -- TRAVELLING. Moving West to East through community -- Cultural journeys -- Transnational crossings -- Queer transmissions -- Travel and power -- Movement and stagnation -- ACCESSING. Being the same -- Gentrifying fat -- Consumerism and gender -- Professionalisation and class -- Supremacy and race -- Healthism and disability -- Rethinking borders -- QUEERING. Defining queer -- Queer fat activism -- The Chubsters -- The Fat of The Land: A Queer Chub Harvest Festival -- A Queer and Trans Fat Activist Timeline -- The Fattylympics -- Who knows? |
| Summary |
"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 myth; 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, and 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. This is the book you have been waiting for."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 12, 2021) |
| Subject |
Fat-acceptance movement.
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Overweight persons -- Political activity
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Fat-acceptance movement -- History
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Obesity -- Social aspects
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Body image in women -- Political aspects
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Body image in women -- Social aspects
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Feminist theory.
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Queer theory.
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Body image in women -- Social aspects
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Fat-acceptance movement
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Feminist theory
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Obesity -- Social aspects
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Queer theory
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781910849323 |
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1910849324 |
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9781910849316 |
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1910849316 |
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