Drawing on longitudinal, qualitative research into girls' participation in physical activity and
sport in the UK, this article will explore girls' embodied constructions of 'healthy'identities. My …

Within physical education and sport, girls must navigate discourses of valued athletic and
gendered bodies that marginalise or 'other'non-normative performances through systems of …

Sport and physical activity is commonly constituted as a panacea, and charged with
combating all manner of social problems from obesity to youth disaffection. In this chapter …

A physically active lifestyle can be empowering for young women in allowing them to resist
many of the dominant and limiting discourses around femininity and gender. In finding …

This thesis examines, from a Foucauldian perspective, the complex ways fourteen young
women managed their subject positions and subjectivities in relation to health and physical …

Girls' identity constructions are influenced by the dominant sport, health and beauty
discourses in their society. Recent research indicates that sport and health discourses …

Despite the widely articulated health implications of physical inactivity, declines in youth
participation levels, particularly for adolescent girls, have fuelled social and moral panics …

Drawing on semi-structured interviews with older adolescents, this article examines how
healthism, ideal body discourses and performative body discourses influence their (non) …

There has been growing concern about rising physical inactivity levels in female
adolescents, with schools taking some responsibility to address this. Programmes designed …

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 …