Is Fat a Feminist Issue? Exploring the Gendered Nature of Weight Bias

Sex Roles

Volumn 66, Issue 9-10, 2012, Pages 575-592

  Fikkan, Janna L ^a   Rothblum, Esther D ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fat women; Feminism and weight; Weight bias; Weight based stigma; Women and weight

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859215782     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-011-0022-5     Document Type: Review

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