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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820791603321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN

1-134-40169-8

1-280-07440-X

0-203-56386-7

1-134-40170-1

0-415-30645-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 246 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

EvansJohn <1952 Oct. 16->

DaviesBrian <1938->

WrightJan <1948->

Disciplina

306.483

Soggetti

Physical education and training - Social aspects

Health education - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.