What's Wrong with Fat?

What's Wrong with Fat?
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 9780199857081
ISBN-13 : 0199857083
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Book Synopsis What's Wrong with Fat? by : Abigail Saguy

Download or read book What's Wrong with Fat? written by Abigail Saguy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's Wrong with Fat? examines the social implications of understanding fatness as a medical health risk, disease, and epidemic. Examining the ways in which debates over fatness have developed, Abigail Saguy argues that the obesity crisis literally makes us fat, intensifies negative body image, and justifies weight-based discrimination.


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