Fat kids, working moms, and the "Epidemic of Obesity": Race, class, and mother blame

The Fat Studies Reader

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 113-119

  Boero, Natalie ^a  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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