Book Review: Historicizing Fat in Anglo-American Culture

Anna Kirkland

Anna Kirkland

Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Political Science, University of Michigan

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fatness, disability studies, stigma

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Title: Historicizing Fat in Anglo-American Culture

Author: Edited by Elena Levy-Navarro

Reviewer: Anna Kirkland, University of Michigan

Publisher: Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University Press, 2010

ISBN: 0814211356

Hardcover: $49.95, 254 pages

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Oct 15, 2014

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Vol. 8 No. 2

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Anna Kirkland, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Political Science, University of Michigan

Anna Kirkland, J.D., Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Political Science at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood (New York University Press, 2008) and is currently working on a second book on the vaccine injury compensation court and the autism litigation.

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