Contested bodies of childhood and youth

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 10
List of Tables......Page 11
Notes on the Contributors......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 18
1 Introduction: Contested Bodies of Childhood and Youth......Page 20
2 Children’s Bodies: An Absent Presence......Page 41
Part I: Imagining Bodies......Page 58
3 Femininity and Body Image: Promoting Positive Body Image in the ‘Culture of Slenderness’......Page 60
4 Mimesis and Alterity: Representations of Race in Children’s Films......Page 72
5 Deviant Femininities: The Everyday Making and Unmaking of ‘Criminal’ Youth......Page 87
6 How Do Children Taste? Young People and the Production and Consumption of Food......Page 103
7 Commentary: Imagining Bodies......Page 116
Part II: Disciplining Bodies......Page 122
8 Embodied Childhood in the Health-promoting School......Page 124
9 Health Visiting in Anxious Times......Page 140
10 Contested Bodies of Asylum-seeking Children......Page 155
11 Children’s Bodies: Working and Caring in Sub-Saharan Africa......Page 167
12 Militarised Bodies: The Global Militarisation of Children’s Lives......Page 182
13 Commentary: Disciplining Bodies......Page 197
Part III: Performing Bodies......Page 206
14 Stigma, Health Attitudes and the Embodiment of Youth(ful) Identities: Understandings of Self and Other......Page 208
15 Embodying and Destabilising (Dis)ability and Childhood......Page 222
16 Time for Bed! Children’s Bedtime Practices, Routines and Affects......Page 234
17 AIDS, Mobility and Commercial Sex in Ethiopia: Implications for Policy......Page 251
18 Commentary: Performing Bodies and Contestation......Page 266
B......Page 274
E......Page 275
I......Page 276
O......Page 277
S......Page 278
Z......Page 279