The social management of fatness and thinness

Interpreting Weight: The Social Management of Fatness and Thinness

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 3-8

  Maurer, Donna ^a   Sobal, Jeffery ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

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