Outputs (2)

'I'd Feel Ashamed': Girls' Bodies and Sports Participation (2006)
Journal Article
Evans, B. (2006). 'I'd Feel Ashamed': Girls' Bodies and Sports Participation. Gender, Place and Culture, 13(5), 547-561. https://doi.org/10.1080/09663690600858952

This article is concerned with the links between space, gender and adolescents' bodies. Drawing on data from both qualitative and quantitative research carried out with adolescents aged 13-16 in Liverpool, UK in 2001 the article examines girls' low p... Read More about 'I'd Feel Ashamed': Girls' Bodies and Sports Participation.

'Gluttony or sloth': critical geographies of bodies and morality in (anti)obesity policy (2006)
Journal Article
Evans, B. (2006). 'Gluttony or sloth': critical geographies of bodies and morality in (anti)obesity policy. Area, 38(3), 259-267. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.2006.00692.x

In many countries, obesity is high on public health policy agendas, and geographical research has begun to engage with obesity. However, obesity is a highly contested term, and recent debates about geographers' engagement with policy, and critical di... Read More about 'Gluttony or sloth': critical geographies of bodies and morality in (anti)obesity policy.