| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 246 pages) |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Physical education and training -- Social aspects
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Health education -- Social aspects
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Social influences.
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Sociology.
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Anorexia nervosa.
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Body image.
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Health education.
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Identification (Psychology)
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Physical education.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Sociology of Sports.
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Health education -- Social aspects
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Physical education and training -- Social aspects
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Sportpädagogik
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Körpererfahrung
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Sportsoziologie
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Gesundheitssport
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Körper
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Schönheit
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Gesundheit
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Soziologie
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Lichaamsbewustheid.
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Sociale aspecten.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Evans, John, 1952 October 16-
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Davies, Brian, 1938-
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Wright, Jan, 1948-
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| ISBN |
0203563867 |
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9780203563861 |
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1134401698 |
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9781134401697 |
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1134401701 |
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9781134401703 |
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