| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 246 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; List of contributors; Educating bodies: schooling and the constitution of society; Acknowledgements; Introduction: pedagogy, culture and identity; Pedagogy, symbolic control, identity and health; Post-structural methodologies: the body, schooling and health; The social context of physical education 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' |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Physical education and training -- Social aspects.
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Physical education and training -- Social aspects. |
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Health education -- Social aspects.
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Health education -- Social aspects. |
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Health education. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Evans, John, 1952 October 16-
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Davies, Brian, 1938-
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Wright, Jan, 1948-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Body knowledge and control. London ; New York : Routledge, 2004 0415306442 0415306450 (DLC) 2003046988 (OCoLC)52877982 |
| ISBN |
0203563867 (electronic book) |
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9780203563861 (electronic book) |
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0415306442 |
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0415306450 (paperback) |
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9780415306447 |
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9780415306454 |
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