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The body, childhood and society /

The body, childhood and society / - New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000. - ix, 211 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-205) and index.

Childhood bodies : construction, agency and hybridity / Alan Prout -- Embodied being(s) : understanding the self and the body in childhood / Allison James -- Childhood and the cultural constitution of vulnerable bodies / Pia Haudrup Christensen -- The body as a site of contestation in school / Brenda Simpson -- Children, parents and the construction of the 'healthy body' in middle-class families / Kathryn Backett-Milburn -- 'To become dizzy in our turning' : girls, body-maps and gender as childhood ends / Shirley Prendergast -- Re-presenting the child : the muted child, the tamed wife and the silent instrument in Jane Campion's The piano / Ronnie Frankenberg -- Faith in the body? Childhood, subjecthood and sociological enquiry / Nick Lee -- Constructing the bodies of ill children in the intensive care unit / Bernard Place.

0312221444 (cloth) 9780312221447 (cloth)

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Children.
Human body--Social aspects.

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