Charlotte Cooper, a fat activist with more than 30 years experience, lifts the lid on a previously unexplored social movement and offers a fresh perspective on one of the major problems of our times. In her expansive, intelligent grassroots study she:

- Reveals details of fat activist methods and approaches

- Features extensive accounts of fat activist historical roots going back over four decades

- Explores controversies and tensions in the movement

- Shows that fat activism is an undeniably feminist and queer phenomenon

Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement is a rare...