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Body Knowledge and Control - Studies in the Sociology of Physical Education and Health (Paperback, New)
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Body Knowledge and Control - Studies in the Sociology of Physical Education and Health (Paperback, New)
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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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