Browsing Sociology by Author "Cooper, Charlotte Rachel Mary"

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Fat activism: a queer autoethnography

Cooper, Charlotte Rachel Mary (University of Limerick, 2012)

Over my 20 year involvement with the movement, I have come to notice that scant attention is paid to fat activism. Despite intensified interest in fat in 21st century Western culture, the richness of fat activism is not ...
What’s fat activism?

Cooper, Charlotte Rachel Mary (Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2008)

In 21st century Western culture, obesity is such a maligned state of being that the notion of fat activism is unthinkable to most people. "Fat" and "activist" are not words that sit together well in the popular imagination. ...

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