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Fat rights dilemmas of difference and personhood /

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Main Author: Kirkland, Anna Rutherford
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, c2008.
Subjects:
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.
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Table of 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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