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. INDICE: 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 - Deviant Femininities: The EverydayMaking 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 -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-20138-5
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 280
- Fecha Publicación: 22/10/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés