Body Sovereignty: Fat Politics and the Fight for Human Rights

by Amanda Piasecki, Sondra Solovay, Caleb Luna

Despite an increasing percentage of the U.S. population who are overweight, dismantling the negative framework around fat bodies has been extremely challenging for changemakers who are interested in securing fundamental human rights and equal protection for fat people in the law, in healthcare, and in society.

Body Sovereignty: Fat Politics and the Fight for Human Rights examines not only weight-based discrimination, but the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1440843627
• ISBN13: 9781440843624
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 210 Pages