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  • Sugar rush
    Karen Throsby
    In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the crusade against sugar rose to prominence as an urgent societal problem about which something needed to be done. Sugar was transformed into the common enemy in a revived ’war on obesity’ levelled at ’unhealthy’ foods and the people who enjoy them. Are the evils of sugar based on purely scientific fact, or are other forces at ...
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    35,65 €

  • Sugar rush
    Karen Throsby
    In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the crusade against sugar rose to prominence as an urgent societal problem about which something needed to be done. Sugar was transformed into the common enemy in a revived ’war on obesity’ levelled at ’unhealthy’ foods and the people who enjoy them. Are the evils of sugar based on purely scientific fact, or are other forces at ...
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    157,32 €

  • Immersion
    Karen Throsby
    Immersion is about the extreme sport of marathon swimming. Drawing on extensive (auto)ethnographic data, Immersion explores the embodied and social processes of becoming a marathon swimmer and investigates how social belonging is produced and policed. Using marathon swimming as a lens, this foundation provides the basis for an exploration of what constitutes the ’good’ body in ...
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    37,10 €

  • Immersion
    Karen Throsby
    Immersion is about the extreme sport of marathon swimming. Drawing on extensive (auto)ethnographic data, Immersion explores the embodied and social processes of becoming a marathon swimmer and investigates how social belonging is produced and policed. Using marathon swimming as a lens, this foundation provides the basis for an exploration of what constitutes the ’good’ body in ...
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    157,53 €

  • When Ivf Fails
    Karen Dr Throsby
    This book is a discourse analysis of a series of interviews with women and couples who have had IVF unsuccessfully and who have subsequently stopped treatment. Taking a feminist approach, the book argues that treatment failure produces an ongoing and profoundly gendered burden of discursive work that is oriented towards locating the self, and the engagement with IVF, as 'normal...
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    65,22 €