Education, Disordered Eating and Obesity Discourse

John Evans is Professor of Sociology of Education and Physical Education in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Loughborough University, UK.Emma Rich is Lecturer in The Body and Physical Culture in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Loughborough University, UK.Brian Davies is Emeritus Professor of Education at Cardiff University, UK.Rachel Allwood is a doctoral research student in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Loughborough University, UK.

• 1. Introduction: The Rise and Rise of the Child Saving Movement 2. Body Pedagogies, Obesity Discourse and Disordered Eating 3. Sacred Knowledge, Science and Health Policy: Obesity as Instructional Discourse 4. Fat Ethics: Obesity as Regulative Discourse 5. Popular Pedagogies, Popular Culture and Media Lifestyle Advertising 6. Solving the Obesity Crisis?: Health P/policy in Totally Pedagogised Schools 7. Class, Control and Embodiment. What Schools do to Middle Class Girls? 8. Affective Pedagogies: Emotion and Desire in Learning to Become Ill 9. Alternative Pedagogies: Rethinking Health 10. Health Education, Weight Management or Social Control?

"This book is a welcome contribution to the sociology of education and to the literature on 'disordered eating'. It captures in graphic terms the experiences of a group of mainly middle class young women diagnosed as 'having an eating disorder' and offers a compelling conceptualisation of the inter-play of 'perfection codes' and 'performance codes' in their lives." Geoff Whitty, Director, Institute of Education, London