Fat lib: How fat activism expands the obesity debate

Debating Obesity: Critical Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 164-191

  Cooper, Charlotte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230304239     Document Type: Chapter

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