January Journal: Bodies and health

My excellent brother gave me a challenging prompt: can we have a post about Charlotte Cooper's criticisms of the body as a locus of health, and the way even fat activism focuses on health issues. That's assuming you have thought about her stuff. I figured it might be interesting to hear a biologist respond. The problem is that I'm not at all familiar with Charlotte Cooper. Furthermore, between my trying to make daily posts and the fact that Screwy is buried in the very final stretch of writing up his PhD thesis, we haven't managed to find time for a conversation clarifying what exactly he wants me to talk about. I can talk a bit about fat activism being fixated on (a narrow definition of) health, and follow up with a more detailed post once I've had time to do the reading.

( bodies and body image )

Not at all sure if this is what Screwy was after; I'll either follow up with more detail or I'll write an entirely different post if I've got the wrong end of the stick.

[January Journal masterlist]