Fat activism : a radical social movement / Charlotte Cooper.

Charlotte Cooper, a fat activist with more than 30 years experience, lifts the lid on a previously unexplored social movement and offers a fresh perspective on one of the major problems of our times. In her expansive, intelligent grassroots study she: - Reveals details of fat activist methods and approaches - Features extensive accounts of 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. Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement is a rare instance of fat people speaking about their lives and politics on their own terms. The book is the result of Charlotte's community-based doctoral research.--Amazon. CA.

"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. 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. It is part of a new wave of accessible, accountable and rigorous work emerging through Research Justice and the Para-Academy."--Page 4 of cover.

Bristol, England : HammerOn Press, 2016.

296 pages ; 23 cm

Undoing. Proxies ; Developing fat activist research -- Doing. This is fat activism ; A meta social movement -- Locating. My awakening ; Understanding contexts ; Fat feminism ; Some starting points -- Travelling. Travel and power ; Movement and stagnation -- Accessing. Being the same ; Gentrifying fat ; Rethinking borders -- Queering. Defining queer ; Queer fat activism ; Who knows?

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-278) and index