Fat Activism (Second Edition): A Radical Social Movement

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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 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 not only an invaluable contribution to the burgeoning field of fat studies, but also a vehicle for much-needed social change.  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