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Fighting Fat Prejudice and Embracing Size Diversity

The Fat Studies Reader. Edited by Esther Rothblum and Sondra Solovay, New York, NY, New York University Press, 2009. 441 pp. $27.00 (paper). ISBN: 978-0-8147-7631-5

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    Ashley Elizabeth Kasardo & Maureen C. McHugh

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Kasardo, A.E., McHugh, M.C. Fighting Fat Prejudice and Embracing Size Diversity. Sex Roles 66, 698–700 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-011-0090-6

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