Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood

by Anna Kirkland

Book Overview

Author Interview on The Brian Lehrer Show
America is a weight-obsessed nation. Over the last decade, there's been an explosion of concern in the U.S. about people getting fatter. Plaintiffs are now filing lawsuits arguing that discrimination against fat people should be illegal. Fat Rights asks the first provocative questions that need to be raised about adding weight to lists of currently protected traits like race, gender, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814748139
• ISBN13: 9780814748138
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"