In the current neo-Liberal context, individuals are both required and expected to be
responsible for managing the health and wellbeing of their bodies (Moore 2010). A range of …

Mainstream understandings of health in New Zealand have primarily revolved around
Westernised white, middle-class viewpoints, emphasising individuality and personal …

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 …

In this chapter I examine the process of “making up”(Rose & Miller, 1992, p. 174) the healthy
citizen during a time of widespread and sustained concern about the 'obesity epidemic'. With …

The purpose of this paper is to explore the complex and diverse positions particular young
women and men take up in relation to the moral imperatives of the healthism discourse. We …

Health risk behaviours such as tobacco smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, drug use,
unhealthy diet and unprotected sexual intercourse contribute to the global burden of non …

This chapter examines 'health'fitness and lifestyle management in relation to neoliberal
moral self-disciplinary discourses, which position the human being and body as a subject to …

Purpose: Healthiness is constructed, in Western culture, as a moral ideal or supervalue. This
paper will interrogate the assumption that health and the pursuit of healthiness is always …

Taking the case of trans children, this chapter highlights that anti-trans groups are mounting
a sustained adultist attack on their emergence. I suggest that these attacks use two forms of …