Contested Bodies of Childhood and Youth

Introduction: Contested Bodies of Children and Youth; K. Hörschelmann& R. Colls Children's Bodies: An Absent Presence; G. Valentine Part I: Imagining Bodies Femininity and Body Image: Promoting Positive Body Image in the 'Culture of Slenderness'; S. Grogan Mimesis and Alterity: Representations of Race in Children's Films; K. Wells Deviant Femininities: The Everyday Making and Unmaking of 'Criminal' Youth; C. Alexander How Do Children Taste? Young people and the production and consumption of food; E. Probyn Commentary: Imagining Bodies; S. Ruddick Part II: Disciplining Bodies Embodied Childhood in the Health Promoting School; J. Pike & D. Colquhoun Health Visiting in Anxious Times; P. Dale Contested Bodies of Asylum-seeking Children; P. Hopkins& M. Hill Children's Bodies Working and Caring in Sub-Saharan Africa; E. Robson Militarized Bodies: The Global Militarization of Children's Lives; I. Solomon & M. Denov Commentary: Disciplining Bodies; E. Gagen Part III: Performing Bodies Stigma, Health, Identity and Youth(ful) Bodies; N. Beale Embodying and Destabilising (dis)ability and Childhood; L. Holt Time for Bed! Children's Bed-time Practices, Routines and Affects; J. Horton & P. Kraftl AIDS, Mobility and Commercial Sex in Ethiopia: Implications for Policy; L. van Blerk Commentary: Performing Bodies and Contestation; R. Panelli