Body knowledge and control : studies in the sociology of physical education and health / edited by John Evans, Brian Davies, Jan Wright. - xxi, 246 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword: Educating bodies: schooling and the constitution of society / Pedagogy, symbolic control, identity and health / Post-structural methodologies: the Body, schooling and health / Sociology, the body and health in a risk society / Towards a critical history of the body, identity and health: corporeal power and school practice / An elephant in the room and a bridge too far, or physical education and the 'obesity epidemic' / The discursive production of childhood, identity and health / The body and health in policy: representations and recontextualisation / 'The Beauty Walk': interrogating whiteness as the norm for beauty within one school's hidden curriculum / Health and physical education and the production of the 'at risk self' / Gendered bodies and physical identities / From performance to impairment: a patchwork of embodied memories / 'Hungry to be noticed': young women, anorexia and schooling / Threatening space: (physical) education and homophobic body work / Endnote: the embodiment of consciousness: Bernstein, health and schooling / Conclusion: ruminations on body knowledge and control and the spaces for hope and happening / Chris Shilling -- John Evans and Brian Davies -- Jan Wright -- John Evans and Brian Davies -- David Kirk -- Michael Gard -- Lisette Burrows and Jan Wright -- Dawn Penney and Jo Harris -- Kimberly L. Oliver and Rosary Lalik -- Deana Leahy and Lyn Harrison -- Robyne Garrett -- Andrew C. Sparkes -- Emma Rich, Rachel Holroyd and John Evans -- Gill Clarke -- John Evans and Brian Davies -- Richard Tinning. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

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Physical education and training--Social aspects
Health education--Social aspects

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