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Fat activism : a radical social movement /

"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 grass...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cooper, Charlotte, 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, England : HammerOn Press, 2021.
Edición:Second edition.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Undoing
  • Doing
  • Locating
  • Travelling
  • Accessing
  • Queering
  • Bibliography
  • Index.
  • 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?