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Being 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> *

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Jenny 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.

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