"Are they just checking our obesity or what?": The healthism discourse and rural young women

This paper makes use of critical discourse analysis and Bourdieu’s theoretical framework to explore rural young women’s meanings of health and fitness and how the healthism discourse is perpetuated through their experiences in school physical education. The young women’s own meanings are explored al...

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Main Authors: Jessica Lee, Doune Macdonald
Format: Default Article
Published: 2010
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/6500
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