Table of Contents

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

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PIA HADRUP CHRISTENSEN Research Fellow and Associate Director, Centre for the Social Study of Childhood, University of Hull, and Associate Researcher, University of Southern Denmark RONNIE FRANKENBERG Professor Emeritus in Sociology and Anthropology, Keele and Brunel Universities ALLISON JAMES Reader, School of Comparative and Applied Social Sciences, University of Hull, and Director, Centre for the Social Study of Childhood NICK LEE Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Keele University KATHRYN MILBURN Sociologist, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh Medical School BERNARD PLACE St Thomas's Hospital, London SHIRLEY PRENDERGAST Department of Sociology, Anglia Polytechnic University BRENDA SIMPSON Graduate student, Centre for the Social Study of Childhood, University of Hull

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ALAN PROUT is Reader in the School of Comparative and Applied Social Sciences, University of Hull and Director of the ESRC Children 5-16 Research Programme.