Becoming Smaller: Autobiographical Spaces of Weight Loss

Antipode

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 871-888

  Longhurst, Robyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Autobiography; Body; Fat; Feminism; Paradox; Weight loss; Women

Indexed keywords

BIOGRAPHY; BODY MASS; DIET; FAT; FEMINISM; WEIGHT; WOMENS HEALTH;

EID: 84860652533     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00895.x     Document Type: Article

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