Eating less, exercising more and losing weight seem the obvious solution for the oncoming 'obesity epidemic'. Rarely, however, is thought given to how these messages are interpreted and whether they are in fact inherently healthy.

Education, Disordered Eating and Obesity Discourse investigates how 'body centred talk' about weight, fat, food and exercise is recycled in schools, enters educational processes, and impacts on the identities and health of young people. Drawing on the experiences of young women who have developed eating disorders and research on international school curricula and the media, the authors challenge the veracity, substance and merits of contemporary 'obesity discourse'. By concentrating on previously unexplored aspects of the debate around weight and health, it is revealed how well-meaning advice can propel some children toward behaviour that seriously damages their health.

This book is not only about 'eating disorders' and the people affected, but the effects of obesity discourse on everyone's health as it enters public policy, educational practice and the cultural fabric of our lives. It will interest students, teachers, doctors, health professionals and researchers concerned with obesity and weight issues.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2008

ISBN

9781134112593

Edition

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Global Development Studies

Index

Social Sciences

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Foreword: body pedagogics, society and schooling
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and acronyms
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?
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography