Carla Rice, University of Guelph
Canada Research Chair, Feminist Studies and Social Practice
Professor
Guelph, Ontario
carlar@uoguelph.ca
Office:
(519) 824-4120 ext. 54942
Expert In
Colourism
Critical and narrative psychologies
Cultural myth making and social exclusion
Early puberty
Embodiment and bodily difference
Equity education
Fat studies and the abject body
Gender and sexual development
Qualitative and arts-informed research
Sexualization of girls
Social and health care encounters
Women and gender
Women’s health
Bio/Research
Dr. Rice's research in the fields of critical psychology, equity education, gender and sexual development, and women’s health spans three major areas of focus: 1) diverse women’s narratives of embodiment in the passage to womanhood; 2) arts‐based inquiry into the experiences of people with disab...
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Bio/Research
Dr. Rice's research in the fields of critical psychology, equity education, gender and sexual development, and women’s health spans three major areas of focus: 1) diverse women’s narratives of embodiment in the passage to womanhood; 2) arts‐based inquiry into the experiences of people with disabilities and bodily differences in social and professional encounters; and 3) qualitative research into the body as an equity issue in school settings.
Rice's scholarship offers critical commentary on, and ethical interventions into, debates about contemporary body‐related social problems such as: the obesity epidemic, early puberty, the sexualization of girls, racism and colourism, and cultural and medical representations of diseased, disabled, and physically different bodies. The growing number of academic articles, she has published in psychology, education, health, and women’s studies journals, range from feminist, poststructuralist, and critical race and disability studies perspectives on eating, weight, and embodiment problems (debates about eating disorder etiology; effects of sexual, racial, medical, and colonial trauma on embodiment; race, class, and colonial dimensions of obesity prevention discourses and programs; controversy about ‘healthy eating’ and ‘healthy weights’ messages and BMI surveillance in health and physical education curricula; and the effects of body-‐based harassment) to responding to the symbolic and social exclusions of children and adults living with bodily differences (developing public health and health education interventions, curricula, and public policy to promote inclusion and equity).
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Rice's scholarship offers critical commentary on, and ethical interventions into, debates about contemporary body‐related social problems such as: the obesity epidemic, early puberty, the sexualization of girls, racism and colourism, and cultural and medical representations of diseased, disabled, and physically different bodies. The growing number of academic articles, she has published in psychology, education, health, and women’s studies journals, range from feminist, poststructuralist, and critical race and disability studies perspectives on eating, weight, and embodiment problems (debates about eating disorder etiology; effects of sexual, racial, medical, and colonial trauma on embodiment; race, class, and colonial dimensions of obesity prevention discourses and programs; controversy about ‘healthy eating’ and ‘healthy weights’ messages and BMI surveillance in health and physical education curricula; and the effects of body-‐based harassment) to responding to the symbolic and social exclusions of children and adults living with bodily differences (developing public health and health education interventions, curricula, and public policy to promote inclusion and equity).
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