'Normal Gone Bad': Health Discourses, Schools and the Female Body

At the Interface: Probing the Boundaries

Volumn 29, Issue , 2006, Pages 177-194

  Rich, Emma ^a   Harjunen, Hannele ^b   Evans, John ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

eating disorders; gender; health; normalization; obesity; schools

Indexed keywords

EID: 85026373458     PISSN: 15707113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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