Dieting women: Self-surveillance and the body panopticon

Weighty Issues: Fatness and Thinness as Social Problems

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 117-132

  Germov, John ^a   Williams, Lauren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

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