@article{84e8c6460ea141f4adf0da2420a4efc8,
title = "Hype and Weight",
abstract = "The function of power is not just to reprise and censor. Power is strong because it produces effects at the level of desire and knowledge. Far from preventing knowledge, power produces it. [Foucault 1980: 59].",
author = "Mark Nichter and Mimi Nichter",
note = "Funding Information: 12. The dialectic between control and release figures prominently in many cultures in a variety of forms. In our own, it may be argued that it is associated with such oppositions as nature:culture, emotionrrationality, and female:male, as gender balance has been attached to roles, images, and more blatant stereotypes. The tension between control:release and the manner in which this tension is encultured and associated with the 'mechanics of power' as a means toward the disciplining of the body is readily apparent in obstetrical practice (Davis-Floyd 1990) and in infant feeding advice (Millard 1990). It might be argued that infants embody a sense of control and release through scheduled feeding practices. In terms of learning to mediate the opposition, the infant learns to suck on a pacifier until it is time for the {"}real thing.{"} 13. All data reported from the Teen Lifestyle Project has been abstracted from a year one project report compiled by the project co-principal investigators, Cheryl Ritenbaugh and Mark Nichter and project manager, Mimi Nichter. The project, Food Intake, Smoking and Diet among Adolescent Girls, is funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (Grant No. SRC (9)5 RO1HD24737-03).",
year = "1991",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1080/01459740.1991.9966051",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "13",
pages = "249--284",
journal = "Medical anthropology",
issn = "0145-9740",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",
number = "3",
}