Fighting for a (Wide Enough) Seat at the Table: Weight Stigma in Law and Policy
Fat Studies An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society ISSN: (Print) (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ufts20 Fighting for a (wide enough) seat at the table: weight stigma in law and policy Angela Meadows , Sigrún Daníelsdóttir , Daniel Goldberg & Marquisele Mercedes To cite this article: Angela Meadows , Sigrún Daníelsdóttir , Daniel Goldberg & Marquisele Mercedes (2020): Fighting for a (wide enough) seat at the table: weight stigma in law and policy, Fat Studies, DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2020.1835295 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2020.1835295 Published online: 09 Nov 2020. Submit your article to this journal View related articles View Crossmark data Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=ufts20 FAT STUDIES https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2020.1835295 Fighting for a (wide enough) seat at the table: weight stigma in law and policy Angela Meadows a, Sigrún Daníelsdóttirb, Daniel Goldbergc, and Marquisele Mercedesd aDepartment of Psychology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada; bDivision of Public Health, Directorate of Health, Reykjavik, Iceland; cCenter for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado; dDepartment of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island ABSTRACT KEYWORDS Few jurisdictions provide legal protection against discrimination Weight stigma; legislation; on the basis of weight despite evidence of pervasive inequalities civil rights; policy change; faced by fat individuals in employment, healthcare, education, discrimination and other domains. Yet, in the last two decades, advocacy efforts in several countries aimed to remedy this situation have been largely unsuccessful.
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