The Body, Childhood and Society

Acknowledgements Contributors Childhood Bodies: Construction, Agency and Hybridity; A.Prout Embodied Being-(s): Understanding the Self and the Body in Childhood; A.James Childhood and the Cultural Constitution of Vulnerable Bodies; P.H. Christensen The Body as a Site of Contestation in School; B.Simpson Children, Parents and the Construction of the 'Healthy Body' in Middle Class Families; K.Milburn 'To Become Dizzy in Our Turning': Girls, Body Maps and Gender as Childhood Ends; S.Prendergast Re-Presenting the Child: The Muted Child, The Tamed Wife and the Silenced Instrument in Jane Campion's The Piano ; R.Frankenberg Faith in the Body? Childhood, Subjecthood and Sociological Enquiry; N.Lee Constructing the Bodies of Ill Children in the Intensive Care Unit; B.Place Index