Charlotte Cooper's Blog (2)

Massive congratulations and love are due to Corinna Tomrley and Ann Kaloski Naylor whose book Fat Studies in the UK has just been published. This is a really important book for fat activism and scholarship, not just in the UK but anywhere. Why? Because there is currently so little documentation of any depth and strength, which this book has in spades. More Fat Studies books are in the pipeline, Sondra Solovay and Esther Rothblum's magnificent Fat Studies Reader is due in November, but Fat Studi… Continue

I've got a Working Paper online on the University of Limerick Sociology website. It's a first draft and will be edited and revised before it's published, but I'd welcome some feedback, if you want to share some. It's a history of fat activism and includes some never-before heard interview material from Lew Louderback, who wrote Fat Power in 1970. It'll be published next year in a British book. http://www.u… Continue