Deborah Mcphail
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 644508 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Deborah Mcphail |
| NOMBRES | Deborah |
| APELLIDO | Mcphail |
| FIRMA | MCPHAIL D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Manitoba |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 111 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Safe spaces that matter
Communities that claim “2SLGBTQ+” (Two Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Queer plus) identities experience profound inequities within healthcare settings. In response, scholars and advocates have engaged in conversations about creating “safe space,” for them. These “safe spaces” are said to be produced through the display of objects such as pride flag stickers and queer inclusive posters, as well as through “queer friendly” staff trained…
Exploring male adolescents' perceptions of gender relations in South India
In Northern Karnataka, South India, boys' behaviours and attitudes towards girls are regarded as one of the many important proximate structural barriers impeding girls' access to education and academic performance in rural communities. In response to these barriers, public health practitioners developed an intervention, known as the Parivartan program, to confront the wider social and structural influences that shape adolescent boys' perspectives…
Exposed social flesh
Recently, a small but growing literature has emerged investigating and outlining what a fat studies pedagogy might entail. Missing from much of this literature is a discussion about how the material body becomes a site through which “obesity” discourse is resisted or reproduced in the classroom. The authors attempt to fill this gap by focusing in particular on the educator’s body. They present the deepened understanding that results when three di…
Fatness and Failing Citizenship
This article examines how queer persons negotiate the technologies of health deployed to shape sexual citizenship, especially in relation to body size. Beginning with the claim that fatness is always already queered, the authors bring Jasbir Puar's concept of homonationalism into conversation with Samantha Murray's argument that fat persons are positioned as failed citizens. The authors illustrate how fat embodied subjects confront problematics o…
Wombs at risk, wombs as risk
Using the Foucaultian concepts of biopower and biocitizenship, critical scholars of childhood “obesity” have shown how fat mothers are labeled as “risks” not only to their children, but also to the State. Such discourses are salient even for fat women who have yet to birth children, as fat women’s “poor utero environments” are now imagined as “at-risk” spaces for babies particularly by the medical community. Critical theorists are only beginning …
Reproducing stigma
The Family Behind the Farm
As increasing toxicity of Manitoba lakes garners public concern, the environmental impacts of pork producers have come under scrutiny. In this context, the Manitoba Pork Council launched The Family Behind the Farm, a series of advertisements and testimonials featuring pork producers and their families. We examine how this campaign operates affectively to distance the family farm from industrial pork production. Building upon geographical literatu…
Fat, queer and sick? A critical analysis of ‘lesbian obesity’ in public health discourse
Recent public health publications identify lesbians as a ‘risk population’ with regards to ‘obesity’ and related comorbidities. Work of this nature argues that lesbian populations have higher rates of obesity due to poor diet and exercise behaviours which are, in turn, blamed on ‘lesbian culture’s’ feminist-informed criticism of patriarchal edicts of beauty, which allow lesbians to develop a greater tolerance for body fat. Also blamed is lesbian …
Resisting biopedagogies of obesity in a problem population
High rates of obesity in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada’s eastern-most province, have helped to position Newfoundlanders as a ‘problem population’ within discourses of the Canadian obesity ‘epidemic.’ As such, biopedagogies of obesity have been deployed by public health offices in the province, through which Newfoundlanders are imagined as unhealthy eaters who are unknowledgeable about healthy eating, a narrative which aligns with older classi…
The rural and the rotund? A critical interpretation of food deserts and rural adolescent obesity in the Canadian context
Weighing In
Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice and the Limits of Capitalism." Social & Cultural Geography, 14(5), pp. 595–596
“I Don't Want to be Sexist But…”
Reporting the results of semi-structured interviews with adults and teenagers in twentytwo urban and rural families in British Columbia, Canada, this paper explores how gendered divisions of food consumption continue to exist within a supposedly “non-sexist” ideological context. With a photo elicitation technique used to stimulate discussions of food and gender, investigators found that most interview participants reproduced stereotypically gende…
I don’t want to be sexist with my food”. The continued salience of gender in food choice
Too much of that stuff can't be good
What to do with the “Tubby Hubby”?“Obesity,” the Crisis of Masculinity, and the Nuclear Family in Early Cold War Canada
Despite current insistence that obesity is a new problem, obesity and fat were discussed frequently in the medical and popular presses and by state officials during the early Cold War in Canada. Using Kristeva's (1982, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection ) concept of abjection, I argue that Cold War anxieties about fat, and specifically the obesity of white, middle‐class men, had less to do with the growing girth of bodies than it did with a …
Unbearable Lessons
In this article we examine how fat-phobic discourses in physical education both constitute, and are continually negotiated by, “fat” and “overweight” students. This claim is based on qualitative interviews about memories of physical education with 15 adults in Canada and the U.S. who identified as fat or overweight at some time during their lives. The research draws from feminist poststructuralism, queer theory, and feminist fat theory to examine…
Unbearable Lessons
In this article we examine how fat-phobic discourses in physical education both constitute, and are continually negotiated by, “fat” and “overweight” students. This claim is based on qualitative interviews about memories of physical education with 15 adults in Canada and the U.S. who identified as fat or overweight at some time during their lives. The research draws from feminist poststructuralism, queer theory, and feminist fat theory to examine…
Reproducing stigma
Too much of that stuff can't be good
The Family Behind the Farm
As increasing toxicity of Manitoba lakes garners public concern, the environmental impacts of pork producers have come under scrutiny. In this context, the Manitoba Pork Council launched The Family Behind the Farm, a series of advertisements and testimonials featuring pork producers and their families. We examine how this campaign operates affectively to distance the family farm from industrial pork production. Building upon geographical literatu…
What to do with the “Tubby Hubby”?“Obesity,” the Crisis of Masculinity, and the Nuclear Family in Early Cold War Canada
Despite current insistence that obesity is a new problem, obesity and fat were discussed frequently in the medical and popular presses and by state officials during the early Cold War in Canada. Using Kristeva's (1982, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection ) concept of abjection, I argue that Cold War anxieties about fat, and specifically the obesity of white, middle‐class men, had less to do with the growing girth of bodies than it did with a …
The rural and the rotund? A critical interpretation of food deserts and rural adolescent obesity in the Canadian context
Fatness and Failing Citizenship
This article examines how queer persons negotiate the technologies of health deployed to shape sexual citizenship, especially in relation to body size. Beginning with the claim that fatness is always already queered, the authors bring Jasbir Puar's concept of homonationalism into conversation with Samantha Murray's argument that fat persons are positioned as failed citizens. The authors illustrate how fat embodied subjects confront problematics o…
Weighing In
Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice and the Limits of Capitalism." Social & Cultural Geography, 14(5), pp. 595–596
I don’t want to be sexist with my food”. The continued salience of gender in food choice
Unbearable Lessons
In this article we examine how fat-phobic discourses in physical education both constitute, and are continually negotiated by, “fat” and “overweight” students. This claim is based on qualitative interviews about memories of physical education with 15 adults in Canada and the U.S. who identified as fat or overweight at some time during their lives. The research draws from feminist poststructuralism, queer theory, and feminist fat theory to examine…
What to do with the “Tubby Hubby”?“Obesity,” the Crisis of Masculinity, and the Nuclear Family in Early Cold War Canada
Despite current insistence that obesity is a new problem, obesity and fat were discussed frequently in the medical and popular presses and by state officials during the early Cold War in Canada. Using Kristeva's (1982, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection ) concept of abjection, I argue that Cold War anxieties about fat, and specifically the obesity of white, middle‐class men, had less to do with the growing girth of bodies than it did with a …
I don’t want to be sexist with my food”. The continued salience of gender in food choice
Too much of that stuff can't be good
“I Don't Want to be Sexist But…”
Reporting the results of semi-structured interviews with adults and teenagers in twentytwo urban and rural families in British Columbia, Canada, this paper explores how gendered divisions of food consumption continue to exist within a supposedly “non-sexist” ideological context. With a photo elicitation technique used to stimulate discussions of food and gender, investigators found that most interview participants reproduced stereotypically gende…
Resisting biopedagogies of obesity in a problem population
High rates of obesity in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada’s eastern-most province, have helped to position Newfoundlanders as a ‘problem population’ within discourses of the Canadian obesity ‘epidemic.’ As such, biopedagogies of obesity have been deployed by public health offices in the province, through which Newfoundlanders are imagined as unhealthy eaters who are unknowledgeable about healthy eating, a narrative which aligns with older classi…
The rural and the rotund? A critical interpretation of food deserts and rural adolescent obesity in the Canadian context
Weighing In
Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice and the Limits of Capitalism." Social & Cultural Geography, 14(5), pp. 595–596
Fat, queer and sick? A critical analysis of ‘lesbian obesity’ in public health discourse
Recent public health publications identify lesbians as a ‘risk population’ with regards to ‘obesity’ and related comorbidities. Work of this nature argues that lesbian populations have higher rates of obesity due to poor diet and exercise behaviours which are, in turn, blamed on ‘lesbian culture’s’ feminist-informed criticism of patriarchal edicts of beauty, which allow lesbians to develop a greater tolerance for body fat. Also blamed is lesbian …
The Family Behind the Farm
As increasing toxicity of Manitoba lakes garners public concern, the environmental impacts of pork producers have come under scrutiny. In this context, the Manitoba Pork Council launched The Family Behind the Farm, a series of advertisements and testimonials featuring pork producers and their families. We examine how this campaign operates affectively to distance the family farm from industrial pork production. Building upon geographical literatu…
Wombs at risk, wombs as risk
Using the Foucaultian concepts of biopower and biocitizenship, critical scholars of childhood “obesity” have shown how fat mothers are labeled as “risks” not only to their children, but also to the State. Such discourses are salient even for fat women who have yet to birth children, as fat women’s “poor utero environments” are now imagined as “at-risk” spaces for babies particularly by the medical community. Critical theorists are only beginning …
Reproducing stigma
Exposed social flesh
Recently, a small but growing literature has emerged investigating and outlining what a fat studies pedagogy might entail. Missing from much of this literature is a discussion about how the material body becomes a site through which “obesity” discourse is resisted or reproduced in the classroom. The authors attempt to fill this gap by focusing in particular on the educator’s body. They present the deepened understanding that results when three di…
Fatness and Failing Citizenship
This article examines how queer persons negotiate the technologies of health deployed to shape sexual citizenship, especially in relation to body size. Beginning with the claim that fatness is always already queered, the authors bring Jasbir Puar's concept of homonationalism into conversation with Samantha Murray's argument that fat persons are positioned as failed citizens. The authors illustrate how fat embodied subjects confront problematics o…
Exploring male adolescents' perceptions of gender relations in South India
In Northern Karnataka, South India, boys' behaviours and attitudes towards girls are regarded as one of the many important proximate structural barriers impeding girls' access to education and academic performance in rural communities. In response to these barriers, public health practitioners developed an intervention, known as the Parivartan program, to confront the wider social and structural influences that shape adolescent boys' perspectives…
Safe spaces that matter
Communities that claim “2SLGBTQ+” (Two Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Queer plus) identities experience profound inequities within healthcare settings. In response, scholars and advocates have engaged in conversations about creating “safe space,” for them. These “safe spaces” are said to be produced through the display of objects such as pride flag stickers and queer inclusive posters, as well as through “queer friendly” staff trained…
Sociology (15 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Medicine (10 obras) · Obesity and Health Practices (10 obras) · Gender Studies (9 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Social science (9 obras) · Gender Studies (7 obras) · Obesity (7 obras) · Social Psychology (7 obras)