Body knowledge and control : studies in the sociology of physical education and health / edited by John Evans, Brian Davies, Jan Wright.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evans, John, 1952 October 16-

Davies, Brian, 1938-

Wright, Jan, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physical education and training--Social aspects.

Health education--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 246 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing together some of the latest research on the body and schooling, Body Knowledge and Control offers a sharp and challenging critique of modern day attitudes toward obesity, health, appearance and self-image.

Contents:

part PART I Introduction: pedagogy, culture and identity

chapter 1 Pedagogy, symbolic control, identity and health / JOHN EVANS

chapter 2 Post-structural methodologies: the body, schooling and health / JAN WRIGHT

part Part II The social context of physical education and health

chapter 3 Sociology, the body and health in a risk society1 / JOHN EVANS

chapter 4 Towards a critical history of the body, identity and health: corporeal power and school practice / DAVID KIRK

chapter 5 An elephant in the room and a bridge too far, or physical education and the ‘obesity epidemic’ / MICHAEL GARD

chapter 6 The discursive production of childhood, identity and health / LISETTE BURROWS

chapter 7 The body and health in policy: representations and recontextualisation / DAWN PENNEY

part PART III Schooling the body: pedagogies of identity

chapter 8 ‘The Beauty Walk’: interrogating whiteness as the norm for beauty within one school’s hidden curriculum / KIMBERLY L. OLIVER

chapter 9 Health and physical education and the production of the ‘at risk self’ / DEANA LEAHY

chapter 10 Gendered bodies and physical identities / ROBYNE GARRETT

chapter 11 From performance to impairment: a patchwork of embodied memories / ANDREW C. SPARKES

chapter 12 ‘Hungry to be noticed’: young women, anorexia and schooling / EMMA RICH

chapter 13 Threatening space: (physical) education and homophobic body work / GILL CLARKE

part PART IV Future directions: research and development in PEH

chapter 14 Endnote: the embodiment of consciousness: Bernstein, health and schooling / JOHN EVANS

chapter 15 Conclusion: ruminations on body knowledge and control and the spaces for hope and happening / RICHARD TINNING.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-134-40169-8

1-280-07440-X

0-203-56386-7

1-134-40170-1

0-415-30645-0

OCLC:

275336283