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  • Getting Ready for Benjamin

    Preparing Teachers for Sexual Diversity in the Classroom

    by Tim Bedford, Deborah P Berrill, Roger Brindley, Kevin P. Colleary, Steve Fifield, Michael Gard, Karen Glasgow, Michelle Hoffner-Brodsky, Denise Hoffner-Brodsky, James R. King, Paula Kluth, Will Letts, Arthur Lipkin, Delores D. Liston, Wayne Martino, Cris Mayo, Michael Middleton, Jane A. Page, Karlenn Pendleton Jiménez, Eric Rofes, Ronni Sanlo, Mara Sapon-Shevin, Génet Simone, Diana Straut, Howard Lee Swain, Allison J. Young ...
    Series series Curriculum, Cultures, and (Homo)Sexualities Series
    This book argues that issues of sexual diversity are inextricably interwoven into the basic concerns of pre-service teacher education. How do we make our students aware of assumptions regarding masculinity, femininity, and sexuality that arise from what is presented, represented, or omitted from curricula and classroom practice? What do we say about homophobia and heterosexism as we anticipate the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies

    Edited by Michael Gard, Darren Powell, José Tenorio ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies is an authoritative and challenging guide to the breadth and depth of critical thinking and theory on obesity. Rather than focusing on obesity as a public health crisis to be solved, this reference work offers divergent and radical strategies alongside biomedical and positivist discourses.Comprised of thirty nine original chapters from ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Schools and Public Health

    Past, Present, Future

    by Carolyn Pluim, Michael Gard ...
    Series series Critical Education Policy and Politics
    Schools and Public Health is a meditation on the past, present, and future of the relationship between public health and American public schools. Gard and Pluim begin by developing a historical account of the way schools have been used in the public health policy arena in America. They then look in detail at more contemporary examples of school-based public health policies and initiatives in order ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • Sport and Physical Activity across the Lifespan

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Rylee A. Dionigi, Michael Gard ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited collection problematizes trajectories of health promotion across the lifespan. It provides a distinctive critical social science perspective of the various directions taken by dominant policies in their approach to promoting sport for all ages. It offers an array of theoretical and methodologically diverse perspectives on this topic, and highlights the intersections between different ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Obesity Epidemic

    Science, Morality and Ideology

    by Michael Gard, Jan Wright ...
    Increasing obesity levels are currently big news but do we think carefully enough about what this trend actually means? Everybody – including doctors, parents, teachers, sports clubs, businesses and governments – has a role to play in the ‘war on obesity’. But is talk of an obesity ‘crisis’ justified? Is it the product of measured scientific reasoning or age-old ‘habits of mind’? Why is it ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The End of the Obesity Epidemic

    by Michael Gard ...
    Despite apocalyptic predictions from a vocal alliance of health professionals, politicians and social commentators that rising obesity levels would lead to a global health crisis, the crisis has not materialised. In this provocative follow up to his classic work of obesity scepticism, The Obesity Epidemic, Michael Gard argues that we have entered into a new, and perhaps terminal, phase of the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • What's Wrong with Fat?

    by Abigail C. Saguy ...
    The United States, we are told, is facing an obesity epidemic-a "battle of the bulge" of not just national, but global proportions-that requires drastic and immediate action. Experts in the media, medical science, and government alike are scrambling to find answers. What or who is responsible for this fat crisis, and what can we do to stop it? Abigail Saguy argues that these fraught and frantic ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Fat Studies Reader

    Edited by Esther Rothblum, Sondra Solovay ...
    Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in PsychologyWinner of the 2010 Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Edited Volume in Women’s Studies from the Popular Culture AssociationWe have all seen the segments on television news shows: A fat person walking on the sidewalk, her face out of frame so she can't be identified, as some disconcerting findings about ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Obesity in Canada

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Deborah McPhail, Wendy Mitchinson, Jenny Ellison ...
    Medical professionals, social policy makers, and the media have all declared that Canada is in the grip of an obesity epidemic. Conceptualizing obesity as a biological condition, these experts insist that it needs to be “prevented” and “managed.”Obesity in Canada takes a broader, critical perspective of our supposed epidemic. Examining obesity in its cultural and historical context, the book’s ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Biopolitics and the 'Obesity Epidemic'

    Governing Bodies

    Edited by Jan Wright, Valerie Harwood ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare
    Biopolitics and the ‘Obesity Epidemic’ is the first edited collection of critical perspectives on the 'obesity epidemic.' The volume provides a comprehensive discussion of current issues in the critical analysis of health, obesity and society, and the impact of obesity discourses on different individuals, social groups and institutions. Contributors from the UK, Canada, New Zealand and Australia ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Education, Disordered Eating and Obesity Discourse

    Fat Fabrications

    by John Evans, Emma Rich, Brian Davies, Rachel Allwood ...
    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 ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Food Fortification

    The evidence, ethics, and politics of adding nutrients to food

    by Mark Lawrence ...
    Food Fortification: The evidence, ethics, and politics of adding nutrients to food critically analyses mandatory food fortification as a technology for protecting and promoting public health. Increasing numbers of foods fortified with novel amounts and combinations of nutrients are being introduced into the food supplies of countries around the world to raise populations' nutrient intakes. It is a ... Read more

    $56.69 USD