Education, Disordered Eating and Obesity Discourse : Fat Fabrications

ISBN-13: 9780415418942 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 182 str.

Evans John

Opis

This book investigates how 'body centred talk' around weight, fat, food and exercise is recycled in schools, enters educational processes, and impacts on the identities and health of young people.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The Rise and Rise of the Child Saving Movement  2. Body Pedagogies, Obesity Discourse and Disordered Eating  3. Sacred Knowledge, Science and Health Policy: Obesity as Instructional Discourse  4. Fat Ethics: Obesity as Regulative Discourse  5. Popular Pedagogies, Popular Culture and Media Lifestyle Advertising  6. Solving the Obesity Crisis?: Health P/policy in Totally Pedagogised Schools  7. Class, Control and Embodiment. What Schools do to Middle Class Girls?  8. Affective Pedagogies: Emotion and Desire in Learning to Become Ill  9. Alternative Pedagogies: Rethinking Health  10. Health Education, Weight Management or Social Control?