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Author Kirkland, Anna (Anna Rutherford)

Title Fat rights : dilemmas of difference and personhood / Anna Kirkland.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 196 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 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?
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Subject Discrimination against overweight persons -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Discrimination against overweight persons -- Law and legislation.
United States.
Overweight persons -- Civil rights -- United States.
Overweight persons.
Civil rights.
Discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Discrimination -- Law and legislation.
Overweight persons -- Social aspects -- United States.
Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Subject Anti-discrimination law.
Other Form: Print version: Kirkland, Anna Rutherford. Fat rights. New York : New York University Press, ©2008 9780814748077 0814748074 (DLC) 2007043256 (OCoLC)177063753
ISBN 9780814748190 (electronic book)
0814748198 (electronic book)
9780814748077 (cl ; alkaline paper)
0814748074 (cl ; alkaline paper)
9780814748138 (pb ; alkaline paper)
0814748139 (pb ; alkaline paper)