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DISABILITY & SOCIETY
Volume 24, Issue 2, Pages 231-243Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09687590802652520
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disability identity; fat; fatness as a disability; fatness as voluntary or involuntary acts; fat identity
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Both fat people and disabled people share common barriers to full societal participation and acceptance. While there has been a substantial amount of literature relating to these two groups as separate entities, there is a lack of contemporary research that investigates the relationship between fat and disability identity formation. The purpose of this qualitative study was to engage in a dialogue with fat individuals and explore the construction of their identities - whether or not they identified with having a disability and, if so, whether or not they viewed their fatness as a disability. Interviews with a sample size of seven participants who self-identified as 'fat' revealed an unwillingness to adopt a disability identity based on their fatness.
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