Stepping off the scale: Promoting positive body image in college students

Gendered Futures in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives for Change

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 55-76

  Hensley, Laura ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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