Fat Rights: The Next Civil Rights Frontier?

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Fat Rights: The Next Civil Rights Frontier?

Listen Wednesday, Apr. 23, 2008 at 1:06 p.m. in Society

It is legal for employers and landlords to discriminate against people based on their weight in 49 states. Find out how 'weight' and 'height' came to be included in Michigan's anti-discrimination law, and why advocates say that Fat Rights may be the next frontier in the civil rights battle.

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Guests

Anna Kirkland

Professor of Women's Studies and Political Science, University of Michigan; and author of "Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood" (NYU Press)

Marilyn Wann

fat rights advocate; and author, "Fat?So!"

Byron Rushing

Representative, 9th District(Suffolk/Boston), Massachusetts House of Representatives

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