num_pages: 157
description: This book brings together three areas of current public debate -- sexuality gender and obesity -- that will be of interest to curriculum workers critical educators physical educators and professionals working in the areas of health recreation and sport. The book provides a critical examination of discrimination based on sexuality gender and body size in Canadian physical education. It illustrates how students with queer bodies -- whether lesbian gay transgendered or overweight or fat -- cope with homophobia transphobia and fat phobia in physical education. Drawing from qualitative interviews with forty people the book reveals how students are marginalized in a variety of ways because they do not conform to taken-for-granted ideas about healthy or athletic bodies. Using psychoanalytic feminist and queer theories the book calls for critical educators to work toward ethical encounters with queer bodies in order to address these forms of discrimination in schools physical education and sport settings.
language: English
title: Queer Bodies: Sexualities, Genders, and Fatness in Physical Education
publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers