Revolting Bodies?

Revolting Bodies?
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Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Total Pages : 192
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015058065270
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Book Synopsis Revolting Bodies? by : Kathleen LeBesco

Download or read book Revolting Bodies? written by Kathleen LeBesco and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines a number of sites of struggle over the cultural meaning of fatness. It is grounded in scholarship on identity politics, the social construction of beauty, and the subversion of hegemonic medical ideas about the dangers of fatness.


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