Extending the obesity debate, repudiating misrecognition: Politicising fatness and health (practice)

Social Theory and Health

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 81-105

  Monaghan, Lee F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

critical weight studies; critique; health; inequality; obesity discourse; symbolic violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872182582     PISSN: 14778211     EISSN: 1477822X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/sth.2012.10     Document Type: Article

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