History Fat acceptance movement

1 history

1.1 first wave
1.2 second wave
1.3 third wave

history

the history of fat acceptance movement can dated 1967 when 500 people met in new york s central park protest against anti-fat bias. sociologist charlotte cooper has argued history of fat activist movement best understood in waves, similar feminist movement, believes closely tied. cooper believes fat activists have suffered similar waves of activism followed burnout, activists in following wave unaware of history of movement, resulting in lack of continuity.

first wave

first wave activities consisted of isolated activists drawing attention dominant model of obesity , challenging 1 of number of possible models.

there many possible reasons development of weight discrimination. during part of 20th century, obesity seen detrimental community, means of decreasing human efficiency, , obese people interfere labor productivity in coastal areas of united states. kind of history , visibility gave rise fat acceptance movement originated in late 1960s, although grassroots nature makes difficult precisely chart milestones. other social movements time period, fat acceptance movement, known fat pride , fat power , or fat liberation , consisted of people acting in impromptu fashion. fat-in staged in new york s central park in 1967. called radio personality steve post, fat-in consisted of group of 500 people eating, carrying signs , photographs of sophia loren (an actress famous figure), , burning diet books.

in 1967, lew louderback wrote article in saturday evening post called more people should fat in response discrimination against wife. article led meeting between louderback , william fabrey, went on found first organisation fat people , supporters, named national association aid fat americans , called naafa ( national association advance fat acceptance ), founded in america, in 1969, bill fabrey in response discrimination against wife. intended campaign fat rights, reporter attending 2001 naafa conference notes few attendees active in fat rights politics , women came shop fashion, wear on conference catwalk or meet potential partner. fabrey works council on size , weight discrimination, specialising in history of size acceptance movement.

in 1973 feminist group fat underground formed. began radical chapter of naafa , spun off become independent when naafa expressed concerns promotion of stronger activist philosophy. fu inspired and, in cases, members of radical therapy collective, feminist group believed many psychological problems caused oppressive social institutions , practices. founded sara fishman (then sara aldebaran) , judy freespirit, fat underground took issue saw growing bias against obesity in scientific community. coined saying, diet cure doesn t work, disease doesn t exist . shortly afterwards, fishman moved connecticut, where, along karen scott-jones, founded new haven fat liberation front, organization similar fat underground in scope , focus. in 1983, 2 groups collaborated publish seminal book in field of fat activism, shadow on tightrope, collected several fat activist position papers distributed fat underground, poems , essays other writers.

in 1979 carole shaw coined term big beautiful woman (bbw) , launched fashion , lifestyle magazine of same name aimed @ plus-sized women. original print magazine closed in late 1990s term bbw has become used refer fat woman.

in uk london fat women s group formed, first british fat activist group, , active between approximately 1985 , 1989.

other first wave activities included productions of zines such figure 8 , fat!so?, marilyn wann later became book of same name.

second wave

in second wave, fat acceptance movement became more widespread in usa , started spread other countries. ideas movement began appear in mainstream. publishers became more willing publish fat acceptance themed literature.

by 1990s, input fat acceptance movement began incorporated research papers members of medical professions such new anti-dieting programs , models of obesity management.

the 1980s witnessed increase in activist organizations, publications, , conferences. in 1989 group of people including actress anne zamberlan formed first french organisation fat acceptance, allegro fortissimo.

organisations began holding conferences , conventions, including naafa.

third wave

the fat acceptance movement has seen diversification of projects during third wave. activities have addressed issues of both fat , race, class, sexuality , other issues. size discrimination has been increasingly addressed in arts, well. performance art groups such pretty porky & pissed off, padded lilies, water ballet troupe of large sized women, big moves , fat bottom revue, big burlesque touring show founded fat activist, heather macallister, leftovers, ups & downs of compulsive eater , among others, intentionally feature fat people in shows.

the fat acceptance movement increased in 2000s, creation of fatosphere , fat liberation feed , providing online communities of blogs , social media dedicated fat acceptance movement. notable fat activists within fatosphere include marianne kirby of rotund , kate harding of shapely prose, co-wrote book lessons fat-o-sphere: quit dieting , declare truce body. additionally, fat studies listserv, health @ every size (haes) created marilyn wann place scholars find more fat positive information.

the individual blogs of second wave have been overtaken larger scale social networking sites such peopleofsize.com, while several websites have sprung connect fat people fat-friendly service providers , products, such fatshionista. size discrimination has been increasingly addressed in arts, well.