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The 'Fat' Female Body
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Book Description
Exploring the rapidly increasing interest in obesity and fatness, this book engages with dominant ideas about "fatness" and analyses the assumptions that inform anti-fat attitudes in the West, looking at the intersection of medicine and morality in pathologizing "fat" bodies.
Book Information
PublisherPalgrave MacMillan Ltd
BindingHardcover
Reading LevelAdult
# of Pages224
ISBN-100230542581
ISBN-13978-0230542587
Publication Date12/15/2008
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About Samantha Murray (Author) : Samantha Murray is a published author. A published credit of Samantha Murray is The 'Fat' Female Body.
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