The environmental account of obesity: A case for feminist skepticism

Signs

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 463-485

  Kirkland, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIET; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENT; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FEMINISM; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HISTORY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; OBESITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL PROBLEM; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

DIET; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FEMINISM; HEALTH POLICY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; OBESITY; POPULATION GROUPS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACE RELATIONS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 78650349321     PISSN: 00979740     EISSN: 15456943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/655916     Document Type: Article

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