Fat rights
Subtitle: discrimination, difference, and personhood
By: Anna Kirkland.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780814748077; 9780814748138
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Imagining legal protections for fatness; title: Shifting the blame; title: Balancing functional individuals and embedded selves; title: Governing risk : medicalization and normalization.