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Direct linkEvans, John; Davies, Brian; Rich, Emma – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2008
This paper examines the inexorable rise of "health" as regulative discourse, highlighting its class and cultural dimensions. With reference to the policy content of recent obesity reports, analysis suggests that contemporary concerns around obesity are but a modern variant of earlier eighteenth and nineteenth century child saving crusades whose…
Descriptors: Working Class, Obesity, Females, Public Health
