2006
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-006-9036-9
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Being Fit and Looking Healthy: Young Women’s and Men’s Constructions of Health and Fitness

Abstract: We drew on Foucault's notion of 'practices of the self' to examine how young people take up, negotiate, and resist the imperatives of a public health discourse concerned with the relationships between health, fitness, and the body. We did this through a discussion of the ways young women and men talk about their own and others' bodies, in the context of a number of in-depth interviews conducted for the Life Activity Project, a study of the place and meaning of physical activity in young people's lives, funded … Show more

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“…This is significant when considering how the adolescent girls had the freedom to either resist or comply with health imperatives. According to Wright et al (2006), these differing responses can occur "even in cases where they [young people] are aware of social critiques of the work of the media and other agencies in promoting body ideals that are unattainable by most" (p. 708). The girls were conscious and at times critical that, through health and fitness apps, individuals are encouraged to engage in self-monitoring and regulation; or as Foucault (1988) articulates, "a certain number of operations on their own bodies and souls" (p. 15) in the pursuit of a bio-citizen ideal.…”
Section: 'Healthy' and Self-responsible Bio-citizensmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This is significant when considering how the adolescent girls had the freedom to either resist or comply with health imperatives. According to Wright et al (2006), these differing responses can occur "even in cases where they [young people] are aware of social critiques of the work of the media and other agencies in promoting body ideals that are unattainable by most" (p. 708). The girls were conscious and at times critical that, through health and fitness apps, individuals are encouraged to engage in self-monitoring and regulation; or as Foucault (1988) articulates, "a certain number of operations on their own bodies and souls" (p. 15) in the pursuit of a bio-citizen ideal.…”
Section: 'Healthy' and Self-responsible Bio-citizensmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…En el presente estudio estas diferencias se observaron solamente como efectos principales significativos, mostrando los hombres mayores niveles de conductas orientadas a mantener la forma física (COMF) y las mujeres mayores puntajes para el cuidado del aspecto fí-sico (CAF), lo cual concuerda con lo expuesto anteriormente por Wright et al (2006). Sin embargo, al tratarse de efectos principales no se pueden hacer inferencias relacionadas al hecho que el comportamiento de estos resultados se deba al NAF.…”
Section: Isaura Castillo Hernández Y José Moncada Jiménezunclassified
“…Les constructions évoquées par nos participantes rejoignent, sur plusieurs points, celles qui ont été observées dans d'autres études (Rail 2009;Wright, O'Flynn et Macdonald 2006) qui soulignent que les jeunes femmes construisent discursivement la santé en termes presque strictement individuels et en parlant de « bien paraître », ce qu'elles font surtout équivaloir à « ne pas être grosse » et à présenter une image conforme aux standards néocoloniaux, bourgeois et hétéronormatifs de la beauté. (Harper et Rail 2011;Rail 2009), bon nombre de participantes légitiment cette importance en soulignant qu'elles doivent compenser leur handicap et tenter de minimiser les possibilités de discrimination.…”
Section: La Veste Bleueunclassified
“…Certaines équipes de recherche ont exploré, dans le contexte du discours dominant de l'obésité, les manières dont les jeunes Canadiennes enceintes construisent discursivement le corps de la femme enceinte (Harper et Rail 2011) et la façon dont les adolescentes canadiennes (Rail 2009) et les jeunes australiennes (Wright, O'Flynn et Macdonald 2006) construisent discursivement la santé. Une des conclusions communes à ces études est que les participantes se sentent interpellées par le discours dominant de l'obésité ainsi que par d'autres discours « normatifs » concernant la beauté, la féminité et l'hétérosexualité.…”
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