Defining, Managing, and Dictating Children’s Bodies: Discourses of “Good” Food and the Politics of “Growing”

  • Lauren Bosc
Keywords: fat studies, growth, eating, bodies

Abstract

Review of:

Hodge, Deborah. Up We Grow! A Year in the Life of a Small, Local Farm. Photog. Brian Harris. Toronto: Kids, 2010.

Hodge, Deborah. Watch Me Grow! A Down-to-Earth Look at Growing Food in the City. Photog. Brian Harris. Toronto: Kids, 2011.

Author Biography

Lauren Bosc

Lauren Bosc is interested in feminist and queer representations of bodies -- particularly fat bodies -- in the context of film, television, and other media. She is currently the Research Coordinator for CRiCS, the Project Coordinator for Thinking through the Museum: Difficult Knowledge in Public, a SSHRC Partnership Development project led by Dr. Angela Failler, and Managing Editor of Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures based out of the Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures (CRYTC). 

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Published
2014-07-10
How to Cite
Bosc, L. (2014). Defining, Managing, and Dictating Children’s Bodies: Discourses of “Good” Food and the Politics of “Growing”. Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, 6(1). Retrieved from http://jeunessejournal.ca/index.php/yptc/article/view/255
Issue
Vol. 6 No. 1 (2014): Special Issue on Consumption
Section
Review Essays