Fat Rights : : Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood / / Anna Kirkland.
Author Interview on The Brian Lehrer ShowAmerica is a weight-obsessed nation. Over the last decade, there's been an explosion of concern in the U.S. about people getting fatter. Plaintiffs are now filing lawsuits arguing that discrimination against fat people should be illegal. Fat Rights asks...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: The Challenge of Difference
- 1 Imagining Legal Protections for Fatness
- 2 Shifting the Blame
- 3 Balancing Functional Individuals and Embedded Selves
- 4 Governing Risk: Medicalization and Normalization
- 5 Accommodating Fatness
- Conclusion: What Is Worth Wanting in American Antidiscrimination Law?
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author