Beschreibung:
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.
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