Disrupting normal: Toward the 'ordinary and familiar' in fat politics

Feminism and Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 388-402

  Meleo Erwin, Zoë ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Disability politics; healthism; identity; normativity; queer theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863642079     PISSN: 09593535     EISSN: 14617161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959353512445358     Document Type: Article

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