基本説明
Demonstrating the contested and differentiated nature of childhood and youth embodiment, this book responds to political and media discourses that stigmatize 'unruly' youthful bodies.
Full Description
Demonstrating the contested and differentiated nature of childhood and youth embodiment, this book responds to political and media discourses that stigmatise 'unruly' youthful bodies, by combining the critical analysis of imagined and disciplined youthful bodies with a focus on young people's lived and performed, embodied subjectivities.
Contents
Introduction: Contested Bodies of Children and Youth; K. Hörschelmann& R. Colls Children's Bodies: An Absent Presence; G. Valentine Part I: Imagining Bodies Femininity and Body Image: Promoting Positive Body Image in the 'Culture of Slenderness'; S. Grogan Mimesis and Alterity: Representations of Race in Children's Films; K. Wells Deviant Femininities: The Everyday Making and Unmaking of 'Criminal' Youth; C. Alexander How Do Children Taste? Young people and the production and consumption of food; E. Probyn Commentary: Imagining Bodies; S. Ruddick Part II: Disciplining Bodies Embodied Childhood in the Health Promoting School; J. Pike & D. Colquhoun Health Visiting in Anxious Times; P. Dale Contested Bodies of Asylum-seeking Children; P. Hopkins& M. Hill Children's Bodies Working and Caring in Sub-Saharan Africa; E. Robson Militarized Bodies: The Global Militarization of Children's Lives; I. Solomon & M. Denov Commentary: Disciplining Bodies; E. Gagen Part III: Performing Bodies Stigma, Health, Identity and Youth(ful) Bodies; N. Beale Embodying and Destabilising (dis)ability and Childhood; L. Holt Time for Bed! Children's Bed-time Practices, Routines and Affects; J. Horton & P. Kraftl AIDS, Mobility and Commercial Sex in Ethiopia: Implications for Policy; L. van Blerk Commentary: Performing Bodies and Contestation; R. Panelli
