Widening the dialogue to narrow the gap in health disparities: Approaches to fat black lesbian and bisexual women's health promotion

The Fat Studies Reader

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 54-64

  Wilson, Bianca D M ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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