num_pages: 114
description: 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.
language: English
title: Fat Tactics: The Rhetoric and Structure of the Fat Acceptance Movement
publisher: Lexington Books