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Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-OCT-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood.(Book review)

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Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood

Anna Kirkland

New York University Press

www.nyupress.org

224 pp., $21 paper, $65 cloth

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Anna Kirkland begins her book with the simple declaration: "This is a book about fat rights." For the most *art, this declaration rings false: Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood is not truly about fat rights. Rather, it is about antidiscrimination law. More specifically, it is about how past antidiscrimination law may be used to determine whether a class of people deserves protection and, if so, how courts determine what types of protection are needed.

Kirkland, an assistant professor of women's studies and political science at the University of Michigan, scrutinizes the development of antidiscrimination law in...

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