The Embodied Child

Introduction Lydia Kokkola and Roxanne Harde Chapter 1. Anne's Body Has a Mind (and a Soul) of Its Own: Embodiment and the Cartesian Legacy in Anne of Green Gables - by Janet Wesselius Section 1: The Politicized Child's Body Chapter 2. Black Power, Black Militants and the Black Child -- by Karen Sands-O'Connor Chapter 3. "It's my skin that's paid most dearly": Katniss Everdeen and/as the Appalachian Body - by Roxanne Harde Chapter 4. Invisibility and (Dis)Embodiment in Louise O'Neill's Only Ever Yours -- by Heather Braun Chapter 5. From the Kitchen to the Edges: The Politics of Hair in African American Children's Picture Books -- by Michelle Martin and Rachelle Washington Section 2: The (Un)Healthy / (Dis)Abled Child's Body Chapter 6. Gendering Disability, Disabling Gender: What Katy Did and Nineteenth-Century Female Bodies - by Julie Pfeiffer and Darla Schumm Chapter 7. Embodying the Healthy, Charitable Child in the Junior Red Cross - by Kristine Moruzi Chapter 8. Treat Me as Normal: Film Representations of Queer Boys with a Disability - by Peter Mountney Chapter 9. Liberty in the Age of Eugenics: Non-normative Bodies in Fabian Socialist Children's Fiction - by Amanda Hollander Harde & Kokkola Section 3: The Reading Child's Body Chapter 10. Embodied Readings of Blackfoot Place and Identity -- by Erin Spring Chapter 11. The Flourishing Child: Representations of Embodied Wellbeing in Contemporary Picturebooks -by Adrielle Britten Chapter 12. The Child's Reading Body -- by Margaret Mackey Chapter 13. Hands on Reading: The Body, the Brain and the Book - by Lydia Kokkola Section 4: The Child's Body in Popular Culture Chapter 14. "Little cooks": Food and the Disciplined Body in Nineteenth-Century Stories for Girls - by Samantha Christensen and Roxanne Harde Chapter 15. Break Dancing: Reading the Ballerina in To Dance -by Jennifer Miskec Chapter 16. Embodied Performances by Lesbian Cheerleaders and Dancers in Glee (2009-2015) and Leading Ladies (2010) -- by Kate Norbury 18. A Dolla Makes Her Holla: The 21st -Century Sexualized, Knowing Child of Reality TV - by Lance Weldy