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With the influential rise of poststructuralist theory in the social sciences, understandings of the notions of women and space are moving away from tightly wound, monolithic packages toward loosely linked, contingent ensembles. Alongside the ontological challenges of these discursive categories has been a shift in the way that body and technology are popularly understood. Drawing on feminist work...
Our interest stems from the dramatic increase in the number of obesity studies, which expose Canadian women to a huge amount of information that links health to weight. Using feminist poststructuralist and postcolonial lenses, this paper investigates young Lebanese-Canadian women’s constructions of the body and “health” practices within the context of the dominant obesity discourse. Participant-centered...
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