Stigma threat and the fat professor: Reducing student prejudice in the classroom

The Fat Studies Reader

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 205-212

  Escalera, Elena Andrea ^a  

^a SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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