"Social Construction of Fatness: Legal Proceedings in Canada" 33:6 Disability & Society 954

Explores the social construction of heavy weight as a disability, with considerations of illness, aesthetic, and blame; reviews Canadian human rights cases in which obesity has been considered as a disability; discusses mythopoeia and its affect on the social construction models. 

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