Let Go and Let God: Religion and the politics of surrender in Overeaters Anonymous

Interpreting Weight: The Social Management of Fatness and Thinness

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 139-164

  Lester, Rebecca J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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