Queer Bodies

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Queer Bodies is written by Heather Jane Sykes and published by Peter Lang. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1433111616 (ISBN 10) and 9781433111617 (ISBN 13).

The book provides a critical examination of discrimination based on sexuality, gender, and body size in Canadian physical education. It illustrates how students with queer bodies--whether lesbian, gay, trans-gendered, or overweight or fat--cope with homophobia, transphobia, and fat phobia in physical education. Drawing from qualitative interviews, the book reveals how students are marginalized because they do not conform to taken-for-granted ideas about healthy or athletic bodies.