Chapter 1 Childhood Bodies: Construction, Agency and Hybridity

Chapter 2 Embodied Being(s): Understanding the Self and the Body in Childhood

Chapter 3 Childhood and the Cultural Constitution of Vulnerable Bodies

Chapter 4 Regulation and Resistance: Children’s Embodiment during the Primary-Secondary School Transition

Chapter 5 Parents, Children and the Construction of the Healthy Body in Middle-class Families

Chapter 6 ‘To Become Dizzy in Our Turning’: Girls, Body-Maps and Gender as Childhood Ends

Chapter 7 Re-presenting the Embodied Child: the Muted Child, the Tamed Wife and the Silenced Instrument in Jane Campion’s The Piano

Chapter 8 Faith in the Body? Childhood, Subjecthood and Sociological Enquiry