Managing Uncertainty: Obesity Discourses and Physical Education in a Risk Society
By Michael Gard, Jan Wright. 2001
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Subfields: Gender Studies, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Social Psychology
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- Being Fit and Looking Healthy: Young Women’s and Men’s Constructions of Health and Fitness (2006, background): “problematic. As many writers and researchers have pointed out, the relationship between appearance and social capital (Featherstone, 1991), the promotion of a panic about an ‘obesity epidemic’ ( Gard & Wright, 2001 ), and the unquestioning promotion of slimness as a desirable attribute for all women”
- Unbearable Lessons: Contesting Fat Phobia in Physical Education (2008, background): “Rice, 2006, 2007; Schoenfielder & Wieser, 1983), however, along with Gard and Wright’s (2005) feminist-influenced contribution to health and exercise studies, The Obesity Epidemic, question this medicalized solipsism between fat and unhealth by uprooting its scientific groundings.”
- Physical Activity and Young People: Beyond Participation (2003, background): “…funded ‘leisure’ resources in countries like Britain and Australia, in the last decade, imperatives around fitness and the so-called ‘obesity epidemic’ have produced a discursive context in which the health benefits of physically active leisure have also received prominence (Gard & Wright, 2001).”
- Framing the mother: childhood obesity, maternal responsibility and care (2010, background): “These concerns have been raised in Australia by scholars critically examining public health discourses surrounding obesity and linked diet and exercise advice (Gard and Wright 2001, O’Dea and Caputi 2001, O’Dea 2005).”
- Healthy bodies: construction of the body and health in physical education (2008, background): “We in this way join with a range of voices in the literature (for example, Gard & Wright, 2001; Evans, 2003; Gard, 2004; Wright & Burrows, 2004; Kirk, 2006) calling for further critical reflection on a physical education dominated by these discourses.”
- The educational benefits claimed for physical education and school sport: an academic review (2009, background): “However, the contemporary focus of concern around children’s body shapes and, in particular, on overweight and obesity is in sharp contrast to the concern at the turn of the twentieth century for the malnourished and defective body of the child (Gard and Wright 2001).”