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050	0	0	_aRC552.O25 _bE45 2020
100	1		_aEllison, Jenny, _d1977- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aBeing fat : _bwomen, weight, and feminist activism in Canada / _cJenny Ellison.
260			_aToronto : _bUniversity of Toronto, _c©2020.
300			_axiii, 275 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: Fat Women Are Not Few -- FIFI: Feminist Approaches to Being Fat -- Between Women: Fat Acceptance Organizations -- "If Only You'd Lose Weight...": Femininity, Sexuality, and Fat Activism -- Dr Fullovitt, MD: Fat Women's Experiences with Doctors and Dieting -- "Let Me Hear Your Body Talk": Aerobics for Fat Women Only -- Bodies in Fashion: Buying and Selling Plus-Size Clothing -- Conclusion: When We Rise the Earth Will Shake.
520			_a"It is okay to be fat. This is the basic premise of fat activism, a social movement that has existed in Canada since the early 1970s. This book focuses on the earliest strands of the Canadian movement, which emerged around 1977 and ended around 1997 with the emergence of defiant performance artists Pretty, Porky, and Pissed Off. This twenty-year window loosely correlates with the rise of "second-wave" feminist organizing and thinking in the country. Fat activists were wrestling with issues other feminists of the era were debating: femininity, sexuality, and health. While united by the idea that it is okay to be fat, the movement has taken many different forms. Fat "activism" and the "movement" encompassed a variety of activities. It included groups that held regular meetings and published newsletters, organized events, and elected an executive. Being Fat explores activities like fashion design, self-help groups, plus-size modelling, and dance under the umbrella of fat activism, undertaken in the name of empowering fat women. Together, these activities show that self-identified fat women took up feminist ideas of liberation and applied them to their lives. Their personal experiences became the basis of a powerful movement to challenge beauty and bodily norms."--
530			_aIssued also in electronic format.
650		0	_aObesity in women _xSocial aspects _zCanada.
650		0	_aOverweight women _zCanada _xSocial conditions.
650		0	_aOverweight women _xHealth and hygiene _zCanada.
650		0	_aBody weight _xSocial aspects _zCanada.
650		0	_aFat-acceptance movement _zCanada.
650		0	_aFeminism _zCanada. _92413
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