Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement
β Charlotte Cooper
π Library
π
2016
π HammerOn Press
π English
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Fat Activism (Second Edition): A Radical Social Movement
β Scribed by Charlotte Cooper
- Publisher
- Intellect Ltd
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 328
- Edition
- 2
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
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, analyzes existing literature in the field, challenges long-held assumptions that uphold systemic fatphobia, and makes clear how crucial feminism and queer theory are to the lifeblood of the movement. She also considers fat activismβs proxy concerns, including body image, body positivity, the obesity epidemic, and fat stigma.Β
Combining rigorous scholarship with personal, accessible writing, Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement is not only an invaluable contribution to the burgeoning field of fat studies, but also a vehicle for much-needed social change.Β
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Cover
Half-title Page
Copyright Page
Title Page
Table of Contents
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?
Bibliography
Index
Back Cover
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