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Direct linkEvans, John; Rich, Emma; Holroyd, Rachel – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2004
This paper focuses upon relationships barely explored in the sociology of education either in the UK or elsewhere that lie between the practices and processes of formal education and the aetiology (the 'causations') and development of eating disorders, specifically, anorexia nervosa (AN) in young women and girls. In so doing, it also touches on…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Middle Class, Females, Cultural Background
Evans, John; Rich, Emma; Davies, Brian; Allwood, Rachel – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2005
Despite burgeoning interests in "the body" as a topic of sociological interest and analysis in recent decades, with few notable exceptions, the sociology of education has not taken as seriously as it might how "embodied subjectivities" both shape and are framed by contexts of teaching and learning. There are processes of formal…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Obesity, Educational Sociology, Eating Disorders
