Fat Studies - class being taught in college

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*A handful of colleges now offer classes entirely devoted to the overweight

and obese. But are they intellectually topical—or just feel-good, pro-fat

propaganda?*

knows what it's like to be shunned because of her weight.

In the early 2000s fat activism was edging into existence, and , a

weight studies scholar, was deemed too skinny to take part.

" I tried to join a fat activist group, and I was rejected because I was not

of size, " she remembers. The movement was gaining momentum as a response to

America's growing weight paranoia, and its members, most of them frustrated,

plus-size women, were skittish about admitting slender outsiders. " At the

time I did understand they were apprehensive that I could be the enemy,

trying to filter in and see what they were doing, " she says.

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