Ideal Weight/Ideal Women: Society constructs the female

Weighty Issues: Fatness and Thinness as Social Problems

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 97-116

  Mckinley, Nita Mary ^a  

^a ALLEGHENY COLLEGE   (United States)

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