Between provisioning and consuming?: Children, mothers and 'childhood obesity'

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Between provisioning and consuming?: Children, mothers and 'childhood obesity'

Contemporary Western societies focus considerable policy and media attention on the 'epidemic of childhood obesity'. In this paper we examine the mobilisation of notions of responsibility and consumption in these discussions, and consider the implications they have for women as mothers. In...

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Main Authors:	Maher, J., Fraser, Suzanne, Lindsay, J.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	The Australian Sociological Association 2010
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13506

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