Governing women's active leisure: The gendered effects of calculative rationalities within Australian health policy

Critical Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 47-60

  Fullagar, Simone P ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOMECHANICS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; LEISURE; LIFESTYLE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SITTING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; WELLBEING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0037367589     PISSN: 09581596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0958159031000100206     Document Type: Article

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