The size acceptance movement and the social construction of body weight

Weighty Issues: Fatness and Thinness as Social Problems

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 231-250

  Sobal, Jeffery ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

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