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Direct linkHarwood, Valerie – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2012
Fat bodies are not, fait accompli, bad. Yet in our international research, we found overwhelmingly that fat functioned as a marker to indicate health or lack of health. A body with fat was simply and conclusively unhealthy. This article reports on how this unbalanced view of fat was tied to assessments of healthy bodies that were achieved by…
Descriptors: Health Education, Physical Characteristics, Children, Body Composition
