Weight and weddings: The social construction of Beautiful Brides

Interpreting Weight: The Social Management of Fatness and Thinness

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 113-136

  Sobal, Jeffery ^a   Bove, Caron ^a   Rauschenbach, Barbara ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

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