The publications listed below relate broadly to women’s bodies, exercise, fitness, and sport. They represent previously published work by members of the international research team involved in this project.

These works do not constitute direct outputs of the current research project (only two papers are direct foundation), nor does the present study simply build upon all of them in a linear way. Rather, they reflect the intellectual foundations, ongoing contributions, and shared lines of inquiry that have informed the development of this research.

By including these publications, we aim to:

• situate the current project within a broader field of scholarly work on women, bodies, and physical activity;

• demonstrate that participating researchers have longstanding engagement, expertise, and critical reflection in this area;

• provide readers with relevant background literature that may help contextualise the aims and direction of the project.

The publications listed below include journal articles and book chapters previously authored by regional collaborators involved in this project. Readers who wish to explore the wider theoretical, empirical, and critical contexts of this research are encouraged to consult these works.

The following publications represent related work by project collaborators (chronic order):

• Peng, B., Du, H., Ha, A.S. (2026). Embracing or Resisting? How Feminist Beliefs Moderate Internalization and Body Dissatisfaction Among Educated Chinese Women. Mass Communication and Society, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2026.2654484 

• Peng, B. (2025). In the name of achievement: women’s fitness body in an era of ‘positivity’. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12(1), 1947. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-06198-5 

• Camacho-Miñano, M. J., Rich, E., MacIsaac, S., & Gray, S. (2025). What Do Different Theories Do in Researching Health-Related Public Pedagogies on Digital Technologies?. In Routledge Handbook of Digital Technologies in Sport, Exercise and Physical Education (pp. 112-126). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003411758 

• Pavlidis, A., Fullagar, S., & O’Brien, W. (2025). Feminist New Materialisms: Researching (How) Sport Matters. In Feminist Futures for Sport: Tracing the Affective Dynamics of Gender Equity in Sport Organizations (pp. 27-48). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-83619-0_2 

• Wu, Y., Kemps, E., & Prichard, I. (2025). “Mind your figure! Watch, but don’t eat”: A content analysis of eating and appearance-related messages in eating videos on social media. Body Image, 53, 101883. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2025.101883

• Deek, M. R., Kemps, E., & Prichard, I. (2025). The role of female family members in relation to body image and eating behaviour: A cross-national comparison between Western and Middle-Eastern cultures. Body Image, 53, 101882. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2025.101882

• Anderberg, I., Kemps, E., & Prichard, I. (2025). Tracking every bite and step: Associations between diet and fitness app use, disordered eating, body image concern and compulsive exercise. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 102890.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102890

• Thorpe, H., Clark, M., Nemani, M., O’Leary, G., & Ahmad, N. (2025). ‘It was too much technology… I chucked my laptop across the room': young women, networked affect and the positivity imperative. Journal of youth studies, 28(7), 1089-1106. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2024.2343704 

• Toffoletti, K., Thorpe, H., Olive, R., Pavlidis, A., & Moran, C. (2025). A feminist embodied ethics of social media use: Corporeal vulnerability and relational care practices. new media & society, 27(1), 43-61.https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231171560 

• Seekis, V., Mulgrew, K. E., Prichard, I., Manning, H., Wood, I., & Stevenson, C. (2025). To detox or not to detox? The impact of different approaches to social media detox strategies on body image and wellbeing. Body Image, 52, 101849. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2024.101849

• Anderberg, I., Kemps, E., & Prichard, I. (2025). The link between the use of diet and fitness monitoring apps, body image and disordered eating symptomology: A systematic review. Body Image, 52, 101836. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2024.101836

• Friedlander, A., Thorpe, H., Nelson, M., & Gibbons, A. (2024). Bloating, heavy legs, and fatigue: sport, menstrual tracking apps and more-than-hormonal bodies. Qualitative Inquiry, 10778004241301035. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004241301035

• Rich, E., Gray, S., Camacho Miñano, M. J., & MacIsaac, S. (2024). Digital health education: Critical perspectives. Health Education Journal, 83(4), 331-337. https://doi.org/10.1177/00178969241255438

• Rich, E. (2024). A New Materialist Analysis of Health and Fitness Social Media, Gender and Body Disaffection:‘You Shouldn’t Compare Yourself to Anyone… but Everyone Does’. Youth, 4(2), 700-717. https://doi.org/10.3390/youth4020047

• Rich, E., & Miñano, M. J. C. (2024). Digital Health and Gender Guide:: How to help young people challenge gender norms about health in a digital world. https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/files/359153742/Digital_health_and_gender_guide.pdf 

• Thorpe, H., Brice, J., O’Leary, G., Nemani, M., Soltani, A., & Barrett, N. (2023). Women's Physical Activity as Becoming: Lines of Flight from the Fitness Assemblage. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 47(4), 303-327. https://doi.org/10.1177/01937235231200288

• Brice, J., Thorpe, H., Wheaton, B., & Longhurst, R. (2023). Postfeminism, consumption and activewear: Examining women consumers’ relationship with the postfeminine ideal. Journal of Consumer Culture, 23(3), 617-636. https://doi.org/10.1177/14695405221129826

• Ní Shuilleabháin, N., Rich, E., & Fullagar, S. (2023). Rethinking digital media literacy to address body dissatisfaction in schools: Lessons from feminist new materialisms. new media & society, 25(12), 3247-3265. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448211041715 

• Peng, B., Ng, J. Y., & Ha, A. S. (2023). Barriers and facilitators to physical activity for young adult women: a systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative literature. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 20(1), 23. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-023-01411-7

• MacIsaac, S., Gray, S., & Kelly, J. (2023). “She’s Pretty in Her Pictures but in Real Life She’s Ugly”: School Pupils Negotiating the Blurred Boundaries between Online and Offline Social Contexts. Youth, 3(3), 897-912. https://doi.org/10.3390/youth3030058

• Thorpe, H., Clark, M., Brice, J., & Sims, S. (2022). The transdisciplinary health research apparatus: A Baradian account of knowledge boundaries and beyond. Health, 26(3), 361-384. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459320961429

• Camacho-Miñano, M. J., Gray, S., Sandford, R., & MacIsaac, S. (2022). Young women, health and physical activity: Tensions between the gendered fields of physical education and Instagram. Sport, Education and Society, 27(7), 803-815. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2021.1932455

• Toffoletti, K., & Thorpe, H. (2021). Bodies, gender, and digital affect in fitspiration media. Feminist Media Studies, 21(5), 822-839. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2020.1713841

• Brice, J. E., & Thorpe, H. (2021). Toward more-than-human understandings of sport and the environment: A new materialist analysis of everyday fitness practices. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 3, 660935. https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2021.660935

• Camacho-Miñano, M. J., & Gray, S. (2021). Pedagogies of perfection in the postfeminist digital age: Young women’s negotiations of health and fitness on social media. Journal of gender studies, 30(6), 725-736. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2021.1937083

• Fullagar, S., Rich, E., Pavlidis, A., & Van Ingen, C. (2021). Feminist knowledges as interventions in physical cultures. In Transforming Sport and Physical Cultures through Feminist Knowledges (pp. 1-16). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490400.2018.1551163

• Thorpe, H., Brice, J., & Clark, M. (2020). Feminist new materialisms, sport and fitness: A lively entanglement. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56581-7

• Thorpe, H., Brice, J., & Clark, M. (2020). Digital intimacies, assemblages, and fit femininities. In Feminist new materialisms, sport and fitness: A lively entanglement (pp. 91-118). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56581-7_4 

• Rich, E., Lewis, S., & Miah, A. (2020). Digital health technologies, body pedagogies and material-discursive relations of young people’s learning about health. In Social theory and health education (pp. 182-195). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351048163 

• Prichard, I., Kavanagh, E., Mulgrew, K. E., Lim, M. S., & Tiggemann, M. (2020). The effect of Instagram# fitspiration images on young women’s mood, body image, and exercise behaviour. Body image, 33, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2020.02.002

• Camacho-Miñano, M. J., MacIsaac, S., & Rich, E. (2019). Postfeminist biopedagogies of Instagram: Young women learning about bodies, health and fitness. Sport, Education and Society, 24(6), 651-664. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2019.1613975 

• Monaghan, L. F., Rich, E., & Bombak, A. E. (2019). Media,‘fat panic’and public pedagogy: Mapping contested terrain. Sociology Compass, 13(1), e12651. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12651 

• Toffoletti, K., & Thorpe, H. (2018). Female athletes' self-representation on social media: A feminist analysis of neoliberal marketing strategies in “economies of visibility”. Feminism & Psychology, 28(1), 11-31. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353517726705 

• Toffoletti, K., & Thorpe, H. (2018). The athletic labour of femininity: The branding and consumption of global celebrity sportswomen on Instagram. Journal of consumer culture, 18(2), 298-316. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469540517747068 

• Prichard, I., McLachlan, A. C., Lavis, T., & Tiggemann, M. (2018). The impact of different forms of# fitspiration imagery on body image, mood, and self-objectification among young women. Sex roles, 78(11), 789-798. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-017-0830-3 

• Raggatt, M., Wright, C. J., Carrotte, E., Jenkinson, R., Mulgrew, K., Prichard, I., & Lim, M. S. (2018). “I aspire to look and feel healthy like the posts convey”: engagement with fitness inspiration on social media and perceptions of its influence on health and wellbeing. BMC public health, 18(1), 1002. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5930-7 

• Carrotte, E. R., Prichard, I., & Lim, M. S. C. (2017). “Fitspiration” on social media: A content analysis of gendered images. Journal of medical Internet research, 19(3), e95. https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.6368 

• Robinson, L., Prichard, I., Nikolaidis, A., Drummond, C., Drummond, M., & Tiggemann, M. (2017). Idealised media images: The effect of fitspiration imagery on body satisfaction and exercise behaviour. Body image, 22, 65-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2017.06.001

• Thorpe, H. (2009). Bourdieu, feminism and female physical culture: Gender reflexivity and the habitus-field complex. Sociology of Sport Journal, 26(4), 491-516. https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/api/core/bitstreams/db96840b-e894-4aa1-ae63-758f03fd1e42/content 

• Prichard, I., & Tiggemann, M. (2008). Relations among exercise type, self-objectification, and body image in the fitness centre environment: The role of reasons for exercise. Psychology of sport and exercise, 9(6), 855-866. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2007.10.005 

• Prichard, I., & Tiggemann, M. (2005). Objectification in fitness centers: Self-objectification, body dissatisfaction, and disordered eating in aerobic instructors and aerobic participants. Sex roles, 53(1), 19-28. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-005-4270-0