Contested bodies of childhood and youth
By: edited by Kathrin Horschelmann and Rachel Colls.
Contributors: Hörschelmann, Kathrin, 1971-; Colls, Rachel, 1975-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230201385
Subjects: Children -- Cross-cultural studies; Youth -- Cross-cultural studies; Human body
Genres: Cross-cultural studies
Description: "Demonstrating the contested and differentiated nature of childhood and youth embodiment, this book responds to political and media discourses that stigmatize unruly youthful bodies, by combining the critical analysis of imagined and disciplined youthful bodies with a focus on young peoples lived and performed, embodied subjectivities"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; title: K. Hrschelmann &; title: R. CollsReflections on Bodies that Matter: Childhood, Identities &; title: Spatiality in the 1990s; title: G. ValentinePART I: Imagining Bodies Introduction for Part I; title: K. Hrschelmann &; title: R. CollsFemininity and Body Image: Promoting Positive Body Image in the Culture of Slenderness; S. GroganMimesis and Alterity: Representations of Race in Childrens Films; title: K. WellsHow do Children Taste? Young People and the Production and Consumption of Food; E. ProbynDeviant Femininities: The Everyday making and unmaking of Criminal Youth; title: C. AlexanderCommentary on Part I; title: S. RuddickPart II: Disciplining BodiesIntroduction for Part II; K. Hrschelmann &; title: R. CollsChildhood Obesity; title: R. Colls & J. ShucksmithHealth Visiting in Anxious Times; P. DaleThe Cultural Politics of Asylum, Racialised Hierarchies and Age Assessment: The Contested Bodies of Unaccompanied Asylum-seeking Children and Young People; title: P. Hopkins &; title: M. HillChildrens Bodies Working and Caring in Sub-Saharan Africa; title: E. RobsonMilitarized Bodies: The Militarization of Childrens Lives; title: I. Solomon &; title: M. DenovCommentary on Part II; title: E. GagenPart III: Performing BodiesIntroduction for Part III; K. Hrschelmann &; title: R. CollsEmbodying and Destabilising (dis)ability and Childhood; title: L. HoltStigma, Health Attitudes and the Embodiment of Youth(ful) Identities: Understandings of Self and Other; title: N. BealeTime for Bed! Childrens Bed-time Practices, Routines and Affects; title: P. Kraftl &; title: J. HortonGeographies of Intoxication: Drug taking Spaces and the Performance of Gender; title: K. OBrienAIDS, Mobility and Commercial Sex in Ethiopia; title: L. van BlerkCommentary on Part III; title: R. Panelli.