Corporeal knowledges and Deviant bodies: Perceiving the fat body

Social Semiotics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 361-373

  Murray, Samantha ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Embodiment; Medicine; Normalisation; Obesity; Pathologisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249151426     PISSN: 10350330     EISSN: 14701219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10350330701448694     Document Type: Article

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