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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-15 - Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Language: en
Pages: 249
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-01 - Publisher: Berghahn Books
Obesity is a rising global health problem. On the one hand a clearly defined medical condition, it is at the same time a corporeal state embedded in the social
Language: en
Pages: 220
Pages: 220
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-05-02 - Publisher: NYU Press
A look at how fatness became a cultural stigma in the United States.
Language: en
Pages: 211
Pages: 211
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Draws on little-known legal cases brought by fat citizens as well as significant lawsuits over other forms of bodily difference (such as transgenderism), and as