Pamela Ward
Biographic Data
| ID | 3741825 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pamela Ward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pamela |
| FAMILY NAME | Ward |
| SIGNATURE | WARD P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Applied Health Research |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The female aging body
Embodied display
Wearables, technological devices for promoting health, physical activity, and weight control, have become increasingly popular. However, debates are ongoing in popular and academic settings regarding their health potential and implications. This article contributes to these conversations, offering a reflexive, collaborative exploration into the experiences of four critical health scholars using wearable technology (Fitbits). Using biopedagogies, …
Confusing constructions
Fat studies scholars challenge the notion of the “obesity epidemic,” explicating how “obesity” discourse serves to shape our views of health and the body. It is argued that childhood “obesity,” in particular, has been constructed as a modern day scourge that threatens the future health of populations. The authors provide an examination of the embodied experiences of children enrolled in an “obesity” treatment program in a Canadian hospital. Utili…
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
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
Confusing constructions
Fat studies scholars challenge the notion of the “obesity epidemic,” explicating how “obesity” discourse serves to shape our views of health and the body. It is argued that childhood “obesity,” in particular, has been constructed as a modern day scourge that threatens the future health of populations. The authors provide an examination of the embodied experiences of children enrolled in an “obesity” treatment program in a Canadian hospital. Utili…
Embodied display
Wearables, technological devices for promoting health, physical activity, and weight control, have become increasingly popular. However, debates are ongoing in popular and academic settings regarding their health potential and implications. This article contributes to these conversations, offering a reflexive, collaborative exploration into the experiences of four critical health scholars using wearable technology (Fitbits). Using biopedagogies, …
The female aging body
Medicine (4 works) · Obesity and Health Practices (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Obesity (3 works) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (2 works) · Embodied cognition (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gerontology (2 works)