Biopolitics and the "obesity epidemic"
Subtitle: governing bodies
By: edited by Jan Wright & Valerie Harwood.
Contributors: Wright, Jan, 1948-; Harwood, Valerie, 1967-
Series: Routledge studies in health and social welfare -- 3
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780415991889
Subjects: Obesity -- Social aspects; Biopolitics; Discourse analysis; Obesity -- epidemiology -- Canada; Obesity -- epidemiology -- United States; Public Policy -- Canada; Public Policy -- United States; Research -- Canada; Research -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Bio-power, biopedagogies and the obesity epidemic / Jan Wright; title: Theorizing biopedagogies / Valerie Harwood; title: Friends, enemies and the cultural politics of critical obesity research / Michael Gard; title: Bio-citizenship : virtue discourses and the birth of the bio-citizen / Christine Halse; title: Doctor's orders : diagnosis, medical authority and the exploitation of the fat body / Annemarie Jutel; title: Marked as "pathological" : fat bodies as virtual confessors / Samantha Murray; title: An impossible task : preventing disordered eating in the context of the current obesity panic / Natalie Beausoleil; title: Governing healthy family lifestyles through discourses of risk and responsibility / Simone Fullagar; title: Pedagogizing families through obesity discourse / Lisette Burrows; title: Canadian youth's discursive constructions of the body and health / Genevieve Rail; title: Performative health in schools : welfare policy, neoliberalism and social regulation / Emma Rich and John Evans; title: Disgusting pedagogies / Deana Leahy; title: The rise of corporate curriculum : fatness, fitness, and whiteness / Laura Azzarito; title: Biopedagogies and beyond / Valerie Walkerdine.