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Body Knowledge and Control: Studies in the Sociology of Physical Education and
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Body Knowledge and Control: Studies in the Sociology of Physical Education and Health Paperback - 2004 - 1st Edition

by Evans, J. et al (eds)

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Routledge, 2004. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:9780415306454
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  • Title Body Knowledge and Control: Studies in the Sociology of Physical Education and Health
  • Author Evans, J. et al (eds)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 270
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 2004
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 9401112
  • ISBN 9780415306454 / 0415306450
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.57 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.45 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Physical education and training - Social, Health education - Social aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003046988
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.483

From the publisher

Today's society is obsessed with the body, its size, shape and healthiness. Governments, business and the popular media, spend and earn fortunes encouraging populations to get healthy, eat properly, exercise daily and get thin. But how are current social trends and attitudes towards the body reflected in the curriculum of schools, in the teaching of Physical Education and Health? How do teachers and health professionals influence young people's experiences of their own and others' bodies? Is health education liberating or merely another form of regulation and social control?

Drawing together some of the latest research on the body and schooling, Body Knowledge and Control offers a sharp and challenging critique of (post) modern-day attitudes toward obesity, health, childhood and the mainstream science and business interests that promote narrow body-centred ways of thinking. Includes:

* A critical history of notions of body, identity and health in schools.
* Analysis of the 'obesity epidemic', eating disorders
* Analysis of the influence of nurtured body image in racism, sexism, homophobia and body elitism in schools.

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