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A critical perspective on one of the major public health issues of
the day Discusses both conceptual and practical issues Synthesizes
a range of disciplinary perspectives Includes findings from primary
research International author team
Transforming Sport and Physical Cultures through Feminist
Knowledges contributes new perspectives on the entanglement of
digital and physical cultures, more-than-human relations, post and
decolonial ways of knowing, and how onto-epistemologies of sport
come to matter. These perspectives are explored through a diverse
array of topics, including, the embodiment of netball through
Feminist Physical Cultural Studies; pregnant embodiment and
implications of the postgenomic turn; posthumanist perspectives on
women’s negotiation of affective body work and an
autoethnographic account of how masculinity materialises through
football; the mediation of gendered subjectivity through the
digital-physical cultures of cycling; as well as how decolonial and
postcolonial approaches identify the gendered and racialised
relations of power in sport for development and football campaigns
aimed at women’s empowerment. The thread that connects these
chapters is the ‘doing’ of feminism as a generative knowledge
practice that can transform ways of imagining, knowing, and
affecting more equitable futures. This feminist collection
contributes to the movement of ideas and transformation of
knowledge within and across sport and physical cultures. Authors
explore the power relations implicated in the gendered formation of
physical cultures (across leisure, sport, the arts, tourism,
well-being, and various embodied practices) from a range of
disciplinary perspectives and theory-method approaches. The
chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue
of Leisure Sciences.
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.
Digital worlds and cultures-social media, web 2.0, youtube,
wearable technologies, health and fitness apps-dominate, if not
order, our everyday lives. We are no longer 'just' consumers or
readers of digital culture but active producers through facebook,
twitter, Instagram, youtube and other emerging technologies. This
book is predicated on the assumption that out understanding of our
everyday lives should be informed by what is taking place in and
through emerging technologies given these (virtual) environments
provide a crucial context where traditional, categorical
assumptions about the body, identity and leisure may be contested.
Far from being 'virtual', the body is constituted within and
through emerging technologies in material ways. Recent 'moral
panics' over the role of digital cultures in teen suicide, digital
drinking games, an endless array of homoerotic images of young
bodies being linked with steroid use, disordered eating and body
dissatisfaction, facebook games/fundraising campaigns (e.g. for
breast cancer), movements devoted to exposing 'everyday sexism' /
metoo, twitter abuse (of feminists, of athletes, of racist nature
to name but a few), speak to the need for critical engagement with
digital cultures. While some of the earlier techno-utopian visions
offered the promise of digitality to give rise to participatory,
user generator collaborations, within this book we provide critical
engagement with digital technologies and what this means for our
understandings of leisure cultures. The chapters originally
published in a special issue in Leisure Studies.
A critical perspective on one of the major public health issues of
the day Discusses both conceptual and practical issues Synthesizes
a range of disciplinary perspectives Includes findings from primary
research International author team
Transforming Sport and Physical Cultures through Feminist
Knowledges contributes new perspectives on the entanglement of
digital and physical cultures, more-than-human relations, post and
decolonial ways of knowing, and how onto-epistemologies of sport
come to matter. These perspectives are explored through a diverse
array of topics, including, the embodiment of netball through
Feminist Physical Cultural Studies; pregnant embodiment and
implications of the postgenomic turn; posthumanist perspectives on
women's negotiation of affective body work and an autoethnographic
account of how masculinity materialises through football; the
mediation of gendered subjectivity through the digital-physical
cultures of cycling; as well as how decolonial and postcolonial
approaches identify the gendered and racialised relations of power
in sport for development and football campaigns aimed at women's
empowerment. The thread that connects these chapters is the 'doing'
of feminism as a generative knowledge practice that can transform
ways of imagining, knowing, and affecting more equitable futures.
This feminist collection contributes to the movement of ideas and
transformation of knowledge within and across sport and physical
cultures. Authors explore the power relations implicated in the
gendered formation of physical cultures (across leisure, sport, the
arts, tourism, well-being, and various embodied practices) from a
range of disciplinary perspectives and theory-method approaches.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special
issue of Leisure Sciences.
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.
The entire infrastructure and culture of medicine is being
transformed by digital technology, the Internet and mobile devices.
Cyberspace is now regularly used to provide medical advice and
medication, with great numbers of sufferers immersing themselves
within virtual communities. What are the implications of this
medicalization of cyberspace for how people make sense of health
and identity? The Medicalization of Cyberspace is the first book to
explore the relationship between digital culture and medical
sociology. It examines how technology is redefining expectations of
and relationships with medical culture, addressing the following
questions: How will the rise of digital communities affect
traditional notions of medical expertise? What will the
medicalization of cyberspace mean in a new era of posthuman
enhancements? How should we regard hype and exaggeration about
science in the media and how can this encourage public engagement
with bioethics? This book looks at the complex interactions between
health, medicalization, cyberculture, the body and identity. It
addresses topical issues, such as medical governance, reproductive
rights, eating disorders, Web 2.0, and perspectives on
posthumanism. It is essential reading for healthcare professionals
and social, philosophical and cultural theorists of health.
The entire infrastructure and culture of medicine is being
transformed by digital technology, the Internet and mobile devices.
Cyberspace is now regularly used to provide medical advice and
medication, with great numbers of sufferers immersing themselves
within virtual communities. What are the implications of this
medicalization of cyberspace for how people make sense of health
and identity? The Medicalization of Cyberspace is the first book to
explore the relationship between digital culture and medical
sociology. It examines how technology is redefining expectations of
and relationships with medical culture, addressing the following
questions: How will the rise of digital communities affect
traditional notions of medical expertise? What will the
medicalization of cyberspace mean in a new era of posthuman
enhancements? How should we regard hype and exaggeration about
science in the media and how can this encourage public engagement
with bioethics? This book looks at the complex interactions between
health, medicalization, cyberculture, the body and identity. It
addresses topical issues, such as medical governance, reproductive
rights, eating disorders, Web 2.0, and perspectives on
posthumanism. It is essential reading for healthcare professionals
and social, philosophical and cultural theorists of health.
Digital worlds and cultures-social media, web 2.0, youtube,
wearable technologies, health and fitness apps-dominate, if not
order, our everyday lives. We are no longer 'just' consumers or
readers of digital culture but active producers through facebook,
twitter, Instagram, youtube and other emerging technologies. This
book is predicated on the assumption that out understanding of our
everyday lives should be informed by what is taking place in and
through emerging technologies given these (virtual) environments
provide a crucial context where traditional, categorical
assumptions about the body, identity and leisure may be contested.
Far from being 'virtual', the body is constituted within and
through emerging technologies in material ways. Recent 'moral
panics' over the role of digital cultures in teen suicide, digital
drinking games, an endless array of homoerotic images of young
bodies being linked with steroid use, disordered eating and body
dissatisfaction, facebook games/fundraising campaigns (e.g. for
breast cancer), movements devoted to exposing 'everyday sexism' /
metoo, twitter abuse (of feminists, of athletes, of racist nature
to name but a few), speak to the need for critical engagement with
digital cultures. While some of the earlier techno-utopian visions
offered the promise of digitality to give rise to participatory,
user generator collaborations, within this book we provide critical
engagement with digital technologies and what this means for our
understandings of leisure cultures. The chapters originally
published in a special issue in Leisure Studies.
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