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Legislating Fatness: Current Debates in Weight Discrimination, Policy, and Law book cover

1st Edition

Legislating Fatness Current Debates in Weight Discrimination, Policy, and Law

Edited By Stephanie von Liebenstein Copyright 2023
122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge
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Discrimination based on body weight is an underestimated and widespread problem. There is not a single national law worldwide that prohibits weight discrimination, but quite a number of laws and policies that reinforce, or at least reflect, the existing socially ubiquitous weight stigma. This volume focuses on where and how fatness and law intersect, discussing current anti-discrimination... Read more

1. Fatness, disability, and anti-discrimination law: an introduction to some basic concepts 
Stephanie von Liebenstein 
2. Fighting for a (wide enough) seat at the table: weight stigma in law and policy 
Angela Meadows, Sigrún Daníelsdóttir, Daniel Goldberg, and Marquisele Mercedes 
3. The anti-stigma principle and legal protection from fattism 
Iyiola Solanke 
4. Failure to launch: one-person-one-fare airline policy and the drawbacks to the disabled-by-obesity legal argument 
Jen Rinaldi, Carla Rice, and Emily Lind 
5. Crossroad between the right to health and the right to be fat 
Friedrich Schorb 
6. Weight and the law in New Zealand 
Cat Pausé and Kathryn Palmer 

Biography

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.

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