Not just 'a white girl's thing': The changing face of food and body image problems

Critical Feminist Approaches to Eating Dis/Orders

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 46-59

  Bordo, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203876442     Document Type: Chapter

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