Editing Fat acceptance movement (section)

===Fat studies===
There has also been an emerging body of academic studies called Fat Studies. [[Marilyn Wann]] argues that fat studies moved beyond being an individual endeavor to being a field of study with the 2004 conference ''Fat Attitudes: An Examination of an American Subculture and the Representation of the Female Body''.<ref name="Rothblum and Sondra Solovay 2009 xi"/> The American [[Popular Culture Association]] regularly includes panels on the subject.{{cn|date=October 2024}} In many colleges, student groups with a fat activist agenda have emerged, including Hampshire, Smith, and Antioch.{{cn|date=October 2024}} Fat studies are now available as an [[interdisciplinary]] course of study at some colleges, taking a similar approach to other identity studies such as [[women's studies]], [[queer studies]], and [[African American studies]].<ref>{{cite news |title='Fat Studies' Go to College |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/11/03/fat-studies-colleges-hot-new-course.html |newspaper=The Daily Beast |date=3 November 2010 |publisher=The Daily Beast Company |last=Binder |first=Eve}}</ref> As of 2011, there were two Australian courses and ten American courses that were primarily focused on fat studies or [[Health at Every Size]], and numerous other courses that had some fat acceptance content.<ref>{{cite news |last=Watkins |first=Patti Lou |title=Teaching Fat Studies From Conception to Reception |newspaper=Taylor & Francis |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ufts20/current |publisher=Oregon State University}}</ref> Taylor & Francis publish an online ''Fat Studies'' journal.<ref>{{cite news |title=Fat Studies |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ufts20/current |newspaper=Taylor & Francis |access-date=2017-09-25}}</ref> The first national Fat Studies seminar was held at York in May 2008, leading to the 2009 publication ''Fat Studies in the UK'', edited by Corinna Tomrley and Ann Kalosky Naylor.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fat Studies in the UK |url=http://www.rawnervebooks.co.uk/FSUK.html |publisher=Raw Nerve. Books |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317214349/http://www.rawnervebooks.co.uk/FSUK.html |archive-date=2012-03-17}}</ref>