Fat, Queer, Dead: ‘Obesity’ and the Death Drive

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Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  White, Francis Ray ^a  

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EID: 84880379070     PISSN: 20440138     EISSN: 20440146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/soma.2012.0035     Document Type: Article

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