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Author Kirkland, Anna Rutherford.

Title Fat rights [electronic resource] : dilemmas of difference and personhood / Anna Kirkland.

Imprint New York : New York University Press, c2008.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xii, 196 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-190) and index.
Contents Introduction: The challenge of difference -- Imagining legal protections for fatness -- Shifting the blame -- Balancing functional individuals and embedded selves -- Governing risk : medicalization and normalization -- Accomodating fatness -- Conclusion: What is worth wanting in American antidiscrimination law?
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Discrimination against overweight persons -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Overweight persons -- Civil rights -- United States.
Discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Overweight persons -- Social aspects -- United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780814748077 (cl : alk. paper)
0814748074 (cl : alk. paper)
9780814748138 (pb : alk. paper)
0814748139 (pb : alk. paper)

 
    
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