Fostering a hunger for health: Food and the self in The Australian Women's Weekly'

Health Sociology Review

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 285-303

  Schneider, Tanja ^a   Davis, Teresa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Advertisement; Australia; Food consumption; Governmentality; Health sociology; Healthy food consumer; Lifestyle magazines; Technology of the self

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551574782     PISSN: 14461242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/hesr.2010.19.3.285     Document Type: Article

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