Gender and the prevention of eating disorders

Preventing Eating-Related and Weight-Related Disorders: Collaborative Research, Advocacy, and Policy Change

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 199-222

  Smolak, Linda ^a   Piran, Niva ^b  

^a KENYON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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