In this new edition of her accessible autoethnography of fat feminist activism in the West, Charlotte Cooper revisits and discusses her activism in the context of recent shifts in the movement. It is part of a new wave of accessible, accountable and...
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In this new edition of her accessible autoethnography of fat feminist activism in the West, Charlotte Cooper revisits and discusses her activism in the context of recent shifts in the movement. It is part of a new wave of accessible, accountable and rigorous work emerging through Research Justice and the Para-Academy
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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