Fat Tactics: The Rhetoric and Structure of the Fat Acceptance Movement

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This book explores and analyzes the ways fat acceptance activists have advocated through language and tactical action. Using Anthony Giddens 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. Fatconsidered a descriptor and not a negative label among activistsis 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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A comprehensive and thoroughly researched journey into the intricacies of the fat acceptance movement. As a leader in the Health at Every Size (HAES) movement for the past 2 decades, I found the work to be compelling and illuminating, particularly in helping to connect the work that we do in HAES with a deeper understanding of the intersectionality and privilege involved. -- Jon Robison, Michigan State University

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Erec Smith is associate professor of rhetoric at York College of Pennsylvania.