Being fat : women, weight, and feminist activism in Canada / Jenny Ellison.

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ellison, Jenny, 1977- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Obesity in women > Social aspects > Canada.
Overweight women > Canada > Social conditions.
Overweight women > Health and hygiene > Canada.
Body weight > Social aspects > Canada.
Fat-acceptance movement > Canada.
Feminism > Canada.
Feminism.
Physical Description:xiii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Issued also in electronic format.
Format: Book

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