Biopolitics and the 'obesity epidemic' : governing bodies, edited by Jan Wright and Valerie Harwood, (electronic resource)

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Label

Biopolitics and the 'obesity epidemic' : governing bodies, edited by Jan Wright and Valerie Harwood, (electronic resource)

Link

http://site.ebrary.com/lib/umanitoba/Doc?id=10274174

Title remainder

governing bodies

Medium

electronic resource

Statement of responsibility

edited by Jan Wright and Valerie Harwood

Instantiates

• Biopolitics and the 'obesity epidemic' : governing bodies

Publication

• New York, Routledge, 2009

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Color

multicolored

Contents

Biopower, biopedagogies and the obesity epidemic / Jan Wright -- Theorizing biopedagogies / Valerie Harwood -- Friends, enemies and the cultural politics of critical obesity research / Michael Gard -- Bio-citizenship : virtue discourses and the birth of the bio-citizen / Christine Halse -- Doctor's orders : diagnosis, medical authority and the exploitation of the fat body / Annemarie Jutel -- Marked as 'pathological' : 'fat' bodies as virtual confessors / Samantha Murray -- An impossible task? : preventing disordered eating in the context of the current obesity panic / Natalie Beausoleil -- Governing healthy family lifestyles through discourses of risk and responsibility / Simone Fullagar -- Pedagogizing families through obesity discourse / Lisette Burrows -- Canadian youth's discursive constructions of health in the context of obesity discourse / Geneviève Rail -- Performative health in schools : welfare policy, neoliberalism and social regulation? / Emma Rich and John Evans -- Disgusting pedagogies / Deana Leahy -- The rise of the corporate curriculum : fatness, fitness, and whiteness / Laura Azzarito -- Biopedagogies and beyond / Valerie Walkerdine

Dimensions

24 cm.

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unknown

Extent

vi, 223 p.

Form of item

electronic

Other physical details

ill.

Record ID

99125117840001651

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction.

Specific material designation

remote

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• (CaMWU)u2166769-01umb_inst
• ebr10274174
• (OCoLC)646794192