Using Feminist Pedagogy to Resist Harmful Messages of Weight-Loss Dieting

“People need to be valued because of who they are”: Self-conception and strategies of resistance in women who challenge weight-loss diet culture

T Jaeger, N Jovanovski

2024-11-01

This paper explores how the self-beliefs of women who have rejected weight-loss diet culture inform their strategies of resistance..

Gut feelings and lived experiences: a qualitative study of ‘anti-diet’ dietitians’ and psychologists’ motivations and experiences regarding the weight-neutral approach

N Jovanovski, T Jaeger, R McDougall, L Keogh

2024-01-01

This paper examines whether the motivations and experiences of ‘anti-diet’ dietitians and psychologists represent a paradigm shift..

Feminine hunger: A brief history of women's food restriction practices in the west

N Jovanovski

2022-08-27

Intentional hunger, or the experience of voluntarily restricting one's food intake, has long been considered a women's issue. From..

Unpacking the 'anti-diet movement': domination and strategies of resistance in the broad anti-diet community

Natalie Jovanovski, Tess Jaeger

2022-04-27

This paper explores how those who adopt an ‘anti-diet’ stance use strategies to challenge weight-loss dieting norms. We used a qua..

The weight of words: Discursive constructions of health in weight-neutral peer-reviewed journal articles

S Zafir, N Jovanovski

2022-03-01

Weight-neutral approaches to health, like the Health at Every Size® (HAES®) approach arose in response to emerging evidence showin..

Demystifying 'diet culture': Exploring the meaning of diet culture in online 'anti-diet' feminist, fat activist, and health professional communities

Natalie Jovanovski, Tess Jaeger

2022-01-06

Social aspects of dieting are discussed in the extant feminist literature. However, despite frequent use of the term ‘diet culture..