"It's just easier not to go to school"

"It's just easier not to go to school": adolescent girls and disengagement in middle school
Lori Olafson
Publisher: New York : Peter Lang, c2006.
ISBN: 0820467626   ISBN13: 9780820467627   DDC: 373.1822   LCC: LC1755   Edition: (pbk. : alk. paper)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-163) and index.

Introduction -- "A more complete telling" -- Interpreting resistance
-- Reconstructing life stories -- Theoretical framework: bodies,
relationships of power, and regimes of truth -- Regimes of the body
-- Schooling the body in physical education -- "The impossible belly
of impossibility."

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Table of contents
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0418/2004014183....

Classification:

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Dewey Class: 373.1822 -- Secondary education
LCC Number: LC1755

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: x, 163 p. ; 23 cm.
Edition Info: (pbk. : alk. paper)

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