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Author Farrell, Amy Erdman.

Title Fat shame [electronic resource] : stigma and the fat body in American culture / Amy Erdman Farrell.

Imprint New York : New York University Press, c2011.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description x, 209 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Considering fat shame -- Fat, modernity, and the problem of excess -- Fat and the un-civilized body -- Feminism, citizenship, and fat stigma -- Narrating fat shame -- Refusing to apologize -- Conclusion : the horror, the horror.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Body image.
Stigma (Social psychology)
Discrimination against overweight persons.
Physical-appearance-based bias.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780814727683 (cl : alk. paper)
9780814727690 (pb : alk. paper)
9780814728345 (e-book)

 
    
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