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The Body, Childhood and Society

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  • © 2000

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Editors:
  1. Alan Prout

    1. University of Hull, UK
      ESRC Children 5–16 Research Programme, UK

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  2. Jo Campling
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Childhood Bodies: Construction, Agency and Hybridity

    • Alan Prout
    Pages 1-18

  3. Embodied Being(s): Understanding the Self and the Body in Childhood

    • Allison James
    Pages 19-37

  4. Childhood and the Cultural Constitution of Vulnerable Bodies

    • Pia Haudrup Christensen
    Pages 38-59

  5. Regulation and Resistance: Children’s Embodiment during the Primary-Secondary School Transition

    • Brenda Simpson
    Pages 60-78

  6. Parents, Children and the Construction of the Healthy Body in Middle-class Families

    • Kathryn Backett-Milburn
    Pages 79-100

  7. ‘To Become Dizzy in Our Turning’: Girls, Body-Maps and Gender as Childhood Ends

    • Shirley Prendergast
    Pages 101-124

  8. Re-presenting the Embodied Child: the Muted Child, the Tamed Wife and the Silenced Instrument in Jane Campion’s The Piano

    • Ronnie Frankenberg
    Pages 125-148

  9. Faith in the Body? Childhood, Subjecthood and Sociological Enquiry

    • Nick Lee
    Pages 149-171

  10. Constructing the Bodies of Critically Ill Children: an Ethnography of Intensive Care

    • Bernard Place
    Pages 172-194

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 195-211
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About this book

Bringing together two topics of wide and growing sociological interest, The Body, Childhood and Society examines how children's bodies are constructed in schools, families, courts, hospitals and in film. Recognising that children's bodies are a target for adult practices of social regulation, the contributors show that children are also active in their construction, employ them in resistance and social action, and generate their own meanings about them. The editor, a leading sociologist of childhood, draws out the theoretical implications of this work, indicates the limits of social constructionism, and suggests new ways of thinking about the hybrid of material, discursive and collective processes involved. It will be a valuable text for social scientists interested in the body, childhood, schooling, the law, medicine and health.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Hull, UK

    Alan Prout

  • ESRC Children 5–16 Research Programme, UK

    Alan Prout

About the editors

ALAN PROUT is Reader in the School of Comparative and Applied Social Sciences, University of Hull and Director of the ESRC Children 5-16 Research Programme.

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