Learning to be healthy, dying to Be Thin: The representation of weight via body perfection codes in schools

Critical Bodies: Representations, Identities and Practices of Weight and Body Management

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 60-76

  Rich, Emma ^a   Evans, John ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230591141     Document Type: Chapter

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