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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

We drew on Foucault's notion of 'practices of the self'to examine how young people take up,
negotiate, and resist the imperatives of a public health discourse concerned with the …

It has been well-documented that women face pressures to conform to a slim, toned, and
athletic body, becoming “tyrannised” by beauty ideals. Under these contemporary ideologies …

This chapter builds on recent theoretical developments in sociological and feminist theory to
pursue non-foundational or non-dualist approaches to studying the body beyond the 'human …

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 …

Drawing on interpretations of Foucault's techniques of power, we explored the discourses
and power relations operative between groups of girls that appeared to influence their …