Fat Tactics

The Rhetoric and Structure of the Fat Acceptance Movement

By: Erec Smith

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Hardcover | 23 November 2018

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114 Pages

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This book explores and analyzes the ways fat acceptance activists have advocated through language and tactical action. Using Anthony Giddensâ concept of Structuration in the make-up of ideology, the book identifies how fat acceptance activists use signification, domination, and legitimation to strengthen their cause. Thus, their actions are both rhetorical and tactical.Fatâ"considered a descriptor and not a negative label among activistsâ"is highly stigmatized for arbitrary reasons in various areas of life ranging from the fashion industry to health care. This books shows how fat acceptance activists work to remedy this situation.

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In this slender volume, Smith (rhetoric, York College) offers readers an overview of fat activism, understanding, acceptance, and discrimination, as well as challenges to traditional European whiteness and gender. He reviews medical issues, social issues, and ideologies as they relate to standards, activism, normalization, and intersectionality. Smith's approach focuses especially on language and rhetoric; issues addressed include the fat acceptance movement (and its critics), fat as a feminist issue, fat studies, language, and the issue's inclusion with civil rights and disability rights (all contentious issues). Smith confronts the medical community and discourse with its war on fat as the last acceptable form of discrimination, and challenges the reader's notions of fat and fatness. Importantly, he also outlines groups, websites, and activism that relates to ideology, discourse, and structuration-all of which offer avenues for further study to the interested reader. This book brings to light many important issues in an area that is often overlooked. Summing Up: Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty and professionals.

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