Fat and Proud: The Politics of Size

by Charlotte Cooper and Charlotte Cooper

In Fat and Proud, activist Charlotte Cooper charts the evolution of the fat rights movement. Demonstrating the extent of fatphobia in society, she explains not only how it affects fat women, but how... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0704344734
• ISBN13: 9780704344730
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Women's Press (UK)
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.8" x 7.1"

Customer Reviews

Great body- (and mind- and spirit-) liberating book

In response to the earlier reviewer who asked why shame is such a bad thing, I am reminded of researcher Susan Wooley's statement a couple of decades ago that "If shame could cure obesity, there wouldn't be a fat woman in the world." Thank goodness for activists and authors like Charlotte Cooper who are helping liberate body, mind and spirit from unhealthy, shaming fat stigma and prejudice.

excellent book

I found this book to be engaging and empowering! I disagree strongly with those reviewers who claim that Cooper is irresponsible by celelbrating an "unhealthy life choice." Fat in of itself is not necessarily unhealthy. A fat person who excercises if far healthier than a thin person who does not. In addition, it has been proven that dieting and other dangerous weight loss methods (such as intestinal and gastric bypass surgeries) are far less healthy than simply trying to maintain one's normal body weight, even if it by definition "overweight."

Fat and proud, shout it loud

Cooper's book is a must-have for readers interested in the workings of fat oppression and, more interestingly, struggles to undermine such oppression. Her writing is accessible and her scope is wide. I especially liked her treatment of the state of the fat rights movement today; her decision to focus on a wide range of fun-oriented activist practices works well.