Fat Studies

The second of the seminar series, ‘Treating Fatness’ at The University of Warwick, Centre for the Study of Women and Gender

Friday 15th February 2008, 2-5pm ‘Resisting Treatment’

Speakers:

Lucy Aphramor (Coventry University)

Charlotte Cooper (size activist and journalist)

The Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at Warwick University are having a series of seminars:

This series of three seminars aims to explore the ways in which the fat body is treated, both in terms of medicalised attempts to “cure” and in terms of how people behave towards those who are visibly fat.

The first of these is entitled “Measuring Children” and it is on this coming Friday, 9th November 2007.
(more details).