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

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Stephanie (Independent Scholar) Von Liebenstein
• Assisted by: Stephanie von Liebenstein (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2024
• EAN: 9781032230375
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3223037-5
• No. of pages: 112
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; MEDICAL / Health Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, LAW / Health, Social Work, Medical & healthcare law, Medical and healthcare law, Obesity: Treatment & Therapy, Obesity: treatment and therapy