| LC control no. | sh2014001069 |
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| Topical heading | Fat-acceptance movement |
| Variant(s) | Fat activism (Social movement) Fat liberation (Social movement) Fat power movement Size acceptance (Social movement) |
| See also | Social movements |
| Found in | Work cat: 2014014311: The politics of size: perspectives from the fact-acceptance movement, 2014. Wikipedia online, April 28, 2014: (The fat acceptance movement (also known as the size acceptance, fat liberation, fat activism, or fat power movement) is a social movement seeking to change anti-fat bias in social attitudes. The movement grew out of the various identity politics of the 1960s and campaigns for the rights of fat people to be treated equally both socially and legally. Areas of contention include the aesthetic, legal and medical approaches to people whose bodies are larger than the social norm) Stanford Law Review 61.5 (Mar. 2009) pp. 1033-1101 (Rhode, D.L. Injustice of appearance: Apart from the relatively small number of individuals involved in the "fat acceptance" movement, no organized constituency has mobilized around discrimination based on appearance) |
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