Legislating Fatness (eBook, ePUB)

Current Debates in Weight Discrimination, Policy, and Law
Redaktion: Liebenstein, Stephanie von

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume focuses on where and how fatness and law intersect, discussing current anti-discrimination protections related to fatness; the ongoing debate around the introduction of new anti-discrimination categories; and weight stigma in legal practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 122
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000625790
• Artikelnr.: 64043003

Autorenporträt

Stephanie von Liebenstein is Founder and Vice President of the German Association against Weight Discrimination (Gesellschaft gegen Gewichtsdiskriminierung e.V.), the largest German fat acceptance organization. She has published and presented extensively on weight discrimination, especially its legal implications. The academic editor, writer, and legal scholar lives in Berlin.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Fatness, disability, and anti
discrimination law: An introduction to some basic concepts 2. Fighting for a (wide enough) seat at the table: weight stigma in law and policy 3. The anti
stigma principle and legal protection from fattism 4. Failure to launch: one
person
one
fare airline policy and the drawbacks to the disabled
by
obesity legal argument 5. Crossroad between the right to health and the right to be fat 6. Weight and the law in New Zealand