Word: solovay
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...studies has emerged as a small but growing interdisciplinary field in universities across the country, The New York Times reported last month. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, professor Margaret Carlisle Duncan, for example, offers a class on “The Social Construction of Obesity.” And Sondra Solovay, an adjunct faculty member at the New College of California School of Law who authored “Tipping the Scales of Justice,” discusses weight discrimination in her courses. Fat studies proponents, who challenge the accepted message that obesity is both avoidable and unhealthy, face stiff opposition...