Contested Bodies of Childhood and Youth

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction: Contested Bodies of Childhood and Youth

   1. Introduction: Contested Bodies of Childhood and Youth

      • Rachel Colls, Kathrin Hörschelmann

      Pages 1-21

   2. Children’s Bodies: An Absent Presence

      • Gill Valentine

      Pages 22-37

3. Imagining Bodies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39

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   2. Femininity and Body Image: Promoting Positive Body Image in the ‘Culture of Slenderness’

      • Sarah Grogan

      Pages 41-52

   3. Mimesis and Alterity: Representations of Race in Children’s Films

      • Karen Wells

      Pages 53-67

   4. Deviant Femininities: The Everyday Making and Unmaking of ‘Criminal’ Youth

      • Catherine Alexander

      Pages 68-83

   5. How Do Children Taste? Young People and the Production and Consumption of Food

      • Elspeth Probyn

      Pages 84-96

   6. Commentary: Imagining Bodies

      • Sue Ruddick

      Pages 97-102

4. Disciplining Bodies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. Embodied Childhood in the Health-promoting School

      • Jo Pike, Derek Colquhoun

      Pages 105-120

   3. Health Visiting in Anxious Times

      • Pamela Dale

      Pages 121-135

   4. Contested Bodies of Asylum-seeking Children

      • Peter Hopkins, Malcolm Hill

      Pages 136-147

   5. Children’s Bodies: Working and Caring in Sub-Saharan Africa

      • Elsbeth Robson

      Pages 148-162

   6. Militarised Bodies: The global Militarisation of Children’s Lives

      • Inbal Solomon, Myriam Denov

      Pages 163-177

   7. Commentary: Disciplining Bodies

      • Elizabeth A. Gagen

      Pages 178-185

5. Performing Bodies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187

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   2. Stigma, Health Attitudes and the Embodiment of Youth(ful) Identities: Understandings of Self and Other

      • Natalie Beale

      Pages 189-202

   3. Embodying and Destabilising (Dis)ability and Childhood

      • Louise Holt

      Pages 203-214

   4. Time for Bed! Children’s Bedtime Practices, Routines and Affects

      • John Horton, Peter Kraftl

      Pages 215-231

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.

• AIDS
• childhood
• childhood and youth
• children
• identity
• Image
• mobility
• nature
• Sex
• youth

'...the book provides a rich and nuanced exposition of many issues that characterise contemporary concern about children and young people.' - Children & Society

• University of Durham, UK

  Kathrin Hörschelmann, Rachel Colls

CATHERINE ALEXANDER is Research Associate in the Department of Geography, Durham University, UK NATALIE BEALE is Research Student in the Department of Geography, Durham University, UK RACHEL COLLS is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Durham, UK DEREK COLQUHOUN is Professor of Urban Learning in the Institute of Learning, University of Hull, UK PAMELA DALE is Researcher based in the Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter, UK MYRIAM DENOV is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at McGill University, UK ELIZABETH GAGEN is Lecturer in the Department of Geography, University of Hull, UK SARAH GROGAN is Professor of Health Psychology at Staffordshire University, UK MALCOLM HILL is Research Professor in the Glasgow School of Social Work, a joint School of the Universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow, UK LOUISE HOLT is Lecturer in Human geography at the University of Reading, UK PETER HOPKINS is Lecturer in Social Geography in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, UK KATHRIN HÖRSCHELMANN is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Durham, UK PETER KRAFTL is Lecturer in Human Geography at Leicester University, UK RUTH PANELLI is Reader in Human Geography at University College London, UK JO PIKE is Researcher in the Food Health and Education Research group in the Institute for Learning at the University of Hull, UK ELSPETH PROBYN is Research SA Chair& Professor of Gender& Cultural Studies at the University of South Australia. ELSBETH ROBSON is Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi, Africa and Honorary Research Associate of the Department of Anthropology, Durham University, UK SUE RUDDICK is an Associate Professor in Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto, Canada INBAL SOLOMON recently completed her Master's degree at the University of Ottawa, Canada GILL VALENTINE is Professor of Human Geography and Director of the Leeds Social Science Institute at the University of Leeds, UK LORRAINE VAN BLERK is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Reading, UK KAREN WELLS is Programme Director of International Childhood Studies at Birkbeck College, UK