Fat World/Thin World: 'Fat Busters,' 'Equivocators,' 'Fat Boosters,' and the social construction of obesity

Interpreting Weight: The Social Management of Fatness and Thinness

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 165-182

  Honeycutt, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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