Previous edition: Bristol: HammerOn Press, 2016. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?
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. Combining rigorous scholarship with personal, accessible writing, this new edition of 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."--back cover..
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