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Overview"It is okay to be fat. This is the basic premise of fat activism, a social movement that has existed in Canada since the 1970s. Being Fat focuses on the earliest strands of the movement, covering the last decades of the twentieth century. The book explores how fat activists wrestled with feminist issues of the era, including femininity, sexuality, and health. Showcasing the earliest efforts of fat activists in Canada, such as the growth of social initiatives ""for fat women only,"" Being Fat helps us recognize the long reach of second-wave feminism and how it shaped activists' approaches to everyday experiences like shopping, exercise, and going to the doctor." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jenny EllisonPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.440kg ISBN: 9781487523473ISBN 10: 1487523475 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 26 March 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Fat Women Are Not Few 1. FIFI: Feminist Approaches to Being Fat 2. Between Women: Fat Acceptance Organizations 3. “If Only You’d Lose Weight...”: Femininity, Sexuality, and Fat Activism 4. Dr Fullovitt, MD: Fat Women’s Experiences with Doctors and Dieting 5. “Let Me Hear Your Body Talk”: Aerobics for Fat Women Only 6. Bodies in Fashion: Buying and Selling Plus-Size Clothing Conclusion: When We Rise the Earth Will Shake Appendix A: Research Methods Appendix B: Detailed List of Research Participants Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsBeing Fat is a very thoroughly researched, lively, and engaging read. - Jacqui Gingras, Department of Sociology, Ryerson University Based on an enormous amount of primary research, Being Fat is a tremendous piece of Canadian feminist history. It presents a well-contextualized discussion of women's own understandings of what it meant to be fat in late twentieth-century Canada. Ellison also documents an impressive and not well-known history of fat activism and other efforts of resistance. Being Fat offers new insights about lesbian feminism and the feminist movement in Canada, and it will give readers a better understanding of the politics of weight and body size. - Mary Louise Adams, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen's University Being Fat is an important text that provides a historical and political grounding of fat women organizations in Canada. [...] This scholarship is imperative to recognizing and understanding how the fat liberation movement began and provides insight to contemporary forms of resistance. -- Nicholas Villarreal, San Diego State University * <em>Fat Studies</em> * Author InformationJenny Ellison is the Curator of Sport and Leisure at the Canadian Museum of History, and co-editor of Obesity in Canada: Critical Perspectives, also published by University of Toronto Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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