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The "Missing Discourses of Desire:" Young Women's Health and Physical Education Experiences in Toronto and Porto Alegre.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The "Missing Discourses of Desire:" Young Women's Health and Physical Education Experiences in Toronto and Porto Alegre./
Author:	Elliott, Laura Leigh.
Description:	1 online resource (194 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-12(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-12A(E).
Subject:	Physical education. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780438187795

The "Missing Discourses of Desire:" Young Women's Health and Physical Education Experiences in Toronto and Porto Alegre.
Elliott, Laura Leigh.

The "Missing Discourses of Desire:" Young Women's Health and Physical Education Experiences in Toronto and Porto Alegre. - 1 online resource (194 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-12(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2018.

Includes bibliographical references

Through a feminist poststructural lens, this dissertation explores: (a) the range of understandings about gendered and racialized bodies held by young women in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; (b) a comparison of the discourses embedded in health and physical education (HPE) policy with respect to gender, sexuality, and fitness in two urban high schools in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and two urban high schools in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; and (c) the effects that gendered and racialized narratives mediating HPE policy and media consumption have on young women in these cities. This study involved a policy analysis of HPE documents and 40 semi-structured interviews with young women 14-17 years of age (n=20 in Canada; and n=20 in Brazil) in order to investigate the myriad of ways in which the body is gendered, sexualized and racialized in HPE and media.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780438187795Subjects--Topical Terms:

1179721
Physical education.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

The "Missing Discourses of Desire:" Young Women's Health and Physical Education Experiences in Toronto and Porto Alegre.
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520 $a Interviews in Toronto and Porto Alegre reveal that students who took part in this study embody a form of healthism promoted in school and throughout the wide range of media platforms the young women consume. In Toronto, the consequence is what Michelle Fine (1988) calls a "missing discourse of desire" that tends to negate pleasure for students. Porto Alegre students taking part in this study also exhibit healthist biopedagogies, although self-acceptance and pleasure emerged as dominant themes. These latter themes emerging from the Porto Alegre responses, diverge from the Toronto youth responses; as the Porto Alegre youth celebrate more diverse visions of the female body, whereas Toronto students discuss a discourse of 'moderation.' This moderation discourse narrows positive embodied practices. Utilizing Fine's argument about "missing discourses of desire" in education, Ontario HPE is then examined and questioned in relation to embodied pleasures made possible for young people in HPE. Policy recommendations include: addressing the social determinants of health in policy, adding opportunities for joyful experiences in physical education, and including critical health literacy and social media literacy in future policy. Young women are encouraged to find embodied pleasure in their physical education experiences and to critically question media representations of the female form.
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