Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Undoing
2. Doing
3. Locating
4. Travelling
5. Accessing
6. Queering
Bibliography
Index
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.
Charlotte Cooper’s fierce new book Fat Activism: A Radical
Social Movement should be required reading for scholars and
activists. Cooper draws on extensive interviews with fat activists
to render a trenchant analysis of our field of motion. She takes a
penetrating look at activist efforts and self-understandings,
eschewing easy praise in favor of discernment that ultimately
promises to invigorate the movement.
*Marymount Manhattan College (Associate Dean)*
Charlotte Cooper is once again in the vanguard of radical social
change with this book about fat activism. She has captured the
history of the fat rights movements, interviewed fat activists, and
demonstrated the extensive and exciting breadth of fat activism in
a global setting. Fat activism is often portrayed as ineffective
when in fact its lack of conformity and interdisciplinarity can
serve as a model for other social movements.
*Editor / Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight
and Society*
For any civil rights movement to succeed, it must know its history;
to build on its strengths and learn from its mistakes. With the
ubiquity of the Internet, the historical knowledge and record of
activism can be rewritten with 140 characters. That is one of the
many reasons that Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement is
important. Anyone interested in the epistemology, ontology, and
methodology, (not to mention history) of fat activism should make
this a central text of their library.
*Massey University / Co-Editor of Queering Fat Embodiment*
It is in the interest of the ethically and intellectually dubious
field of “Obesity Research” to flatten fat subjects; rendering our
voices narrowly defined by punchy rhetoric, our activist
interventions reduced to child-like flailing against the big bad
thin-dominated world. Charlotte Cooper’s book resists this myopic
view of resistance to fat oppression in form and content. Fat
Activists need more researchers and writers examining and
reflecting on our work from within, and this book stands as an
offering and opening in that vein.
*Artist and Member of the Faculty at The Evergreen State College*
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