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Defining Disability: The Case of Obesity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Sander L. Gilman
Sander L. Gilman*
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Emory University
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Conference on Disability Studies and the University
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PMLA , Volume 120 , Issue 2 , March 2005 , pp. 514 - 517
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2005

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