Fat Rights

Download or read book Fat Rights written by Anna Kirkland and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on little-known legal cases brought by fat citizens as well as significant lawsuits over other forms of bodily difference (such as transgenderism), and asks why the boundaries of our antidiscrimination laws rest where they do. Fatness, argues Kirkland, is both similar to and provocatively different from other protected traits, raising long-standing dilemmas in antidiscrimination law into stark relief. Though options for defending difference may be scarce, Kirkland evaluates the available strategies and proposes new ways of navigating this new legal question. From publisher description.