Maxine Woolhouse
Leeds Beckett University
19 Papers
17 Citations
Maxine Woolhouse is an academic researcher from Leeds Beckett University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social class & Oppression. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 18 publications.
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‘Cos girls aren’t supposed to eat like pigs are they?’: Young women negotiating gendered discursive constructions of food and eating
TL;DR: Using poststructuralist discourse analysis, young women’s talk around food and eating is examined, in particular, the negotiation of tensions arising from derogating aspects of hetero-normative femininities, while accounting for own ‘feminine’ practices and subjectivities.
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“Growing your own herbs” and “cooking from scratch”: Contemporary discourses around good mothering, food, and class‐related identities
TL;DR: This article found that mothers were positioned as having prime responsibility for the nurturing of family members, including the provision of a healthy diet, and that providing a healthy food alone was insufficient; mothers needed to demonstrate that time and effort had been taken in the preparation of meals using fresh ingredients.
Class Dismissed: Putting Social Class on the Critical Psychological Agenda
TL;DR: This article present a selection of critical and feminist-informed research on social class which, they argue, offers a more holistic and sophisticated understanding of class and, in particular, draws attention to the complexities involved in how people experience, understand and construct class, classed identities and class transitions.
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Apocalyptic public health: exploring discourses of fatness in childhood ‘obesity’ policy
TL;DR: The National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) is a flagship government programme in England that is used to measure children in the UK as discussed by the authors. But it has been criticised for focusing heavily on children, widely regarded as the future of society.
Towards a Critical Social Psychology of Social Class
Katy Day,Bridgette Rickett,Maxine Woolhouse +2 more
- 11 Apr 2017
TL;DR: This article reviewed mainstream social psychological work on class, highlighting the general failure of this to problematise the class system of countries like Britain and the United States, and what this has offered those seeking to alleviate the problems caused by social and economic inequalities.