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Children’s Bodies: An Absent Presence

  • Valentine G
Palgrave Macmillan UK, (2010), 22-37
DOI: 10.1057/9780230274747_2
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Abstract

Chris Shilling (1993) famously described the body as ‘an absent presence’ in sociology — a characterisation that has also been applied to the body in geography (see Longhurst 1995) and more recently to the sub-discipline of children’s...

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Valentine, G. (2010). Children’s Bodies: An Absent Presence. In Contested Bodies of Childhood and Youth (pp. 22–37). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230274747_2

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