A selective review of prenatal exercise guidelines since the 1950s until present: Written for women, health care professionals, and female athletes

AK Kehler, KM Heinrich - Women and Birth, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Traditional society values have long-held the notion that the pregnant woman is
construed as a risk to her growing fetus and is solely responsible for controlling this risk to …

The birth of the obesity clinic: Confessions of the flesh, biopedagogies and physical culture

G Rail - Sociology of sport journal, 2012 - journals.humankinetics.com
The recent construction of a so-called “obesity epidemic” has been fueled by
epidemiologically-based studies recuperated by the media and suggestions of the rapid …

(Re) performing emotions in diary-interviews

L Spowart, K Nairn - Qualitative Research, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Research with mothers who snowboard generated emotionally rich data. In this article, we
make the case for combining diaries and interviews in research concerned with …

Exercising Caution: The Production of Medical Knowledge about PhysicalExertion during Pregnancy

S Jette - Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 2011 - utpjournals.press
In this article I explore the production of medical knowledge about exercise during
pregnancy in the latter half of the 20th century, illustrating how debates about the safe limits …

Ills from the womb? A critical examination of clinical guidelines for obesity in pregnancy

S Jette, G Rail - Health:, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, we critically examine the clinical guidelines for obesity in pregnancy put forth
by the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) that are underpinned …

Moving Subjects, Feeling Bodies: Emotion and the Materialization of Fat Feminine Subjectivities in Village on a Diet

ME Norman, G Rail, S Jette - Fat Studies, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, we conduct a critical feminist-informed poststructural analysis of the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation's reality weight loss series, Village on a Diet (VOD). We argue that …

Understanding'the national sport for New Zealand women': A socio-spatial analysis of netball

AE Marfell - 2016 - researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz
Since the early 20th century, netball has been heralded 'the national sport for New Zealand
women'and it continues to represent one of the few team sport environments not …

Navigating divorce, single-motherhood and long-distance triathlon: a visual-autoethnography

L Spowart - Sport in Society, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Whilst discourses of motherhood, such as the 'ethic of care'and intensive parenting are
powerful and persuasive, no form of motherhood can be acceptable to all. In this visual …

Screening the un-scene: Deconstructing the (bio) politics of story telling in a Canadian reality makeover weight loss series

ME Norman, G Rail, S Jette - Obesity in Canada: Critical …, 2016 - books.google.com
Canada is in the midst of a childhood obesity epidemic that will have dramatic effects on the
health of Canadians and our health care systems–for the first time in more than a century …

Negotiating moral terrain: Snowboarding mothers

L Spowart, L Burrows - Women in action sport cultures: Identity, politics and …, 2016 - Springer
Motherhood is largely an invisible concept when it comes to action sports, which are most
commonly positioned as sports associated with youths. In this chapter we offer an in-depth …