Framing the mother: childhood obesity, maternal responsibility and care.
Currently in developed nations, childhood obesity is generating widespread concern and prompting social and institutional responses. Obesity is constructed as a broad public health crisis, but individuals are constructed as responsible for their own bodies and body sizes within this crisis. We are p...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Gender Studies Vol. 19; no. 3; pp. 233 - 248 |
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