Boys’ Bodies

The Editors: Michael Kehler is currently Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Western Ontario, where he teaches preservice and graduate education. His research appears in journals including the Canadian Journal of Education, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, and the International Journal for Inclusive Education. He is co-editor of The Problem with Boys’ Education: Beyond the Backlash and of Boy Culture: An Encyclopedia.Michael Atkinson is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Physical Education and Health at the University of Toronto. He serves on the editorial boards of the Sociology of Sport Journal, Deviant Behavior, and the International Journal of Qualitative Methods. He is author of Tattooed: The Sociogenesis of a Body Art, co-author of Deviance and Social Control in Sport, author/editor of Battleground: Sports, and co-editor of Tribal Play: Sports Subcultures.

• Contents: Michael Kehler/Michael Atkinson: Preface. Thinking about Boys, Bodies and Health – Michael Gard: Boys, Girls and the Prejudices of Obesity Research – Travis A. Ryan/Todd G. Morrison/Cormac Ó Beaglaoich: Adolescent Males’ Body Image: An Overview of Research on the Influence of Mass Media – David Kirk: The «Masculinity Vortex» of School Physical Education: Beyond the Myth of Hyper-masculinity – Michael Atkinson/Michael Kehler: Boys, Gyms, Locker Rooms and Heterotopia – Brad Millington/Brian Wilson: Consuming Media, Constructing Masculinities: A Study of Youth Audiences and Physical Education in «Reflexively Modern» Times – James W. Messerschmidt: The Struggle for Recognition: Embodied Masculinity and the Victim-Violence Cycle of Bullying in Secondary Schools – Richard Light/Jeanne Adèle Kentel: Soft Pedagogy for a Hard Sport: Disrupting Hegemonic Masculinity in High School Rugby through Feminist-Informed Pedagogy – Michael Kehler: Negotiating Masculinities in PE Classrooms: Boys, Body Image and «Want[ing] to Be in Good Shape» – Nate McCaughtry/Amy Tischler: Marginalized Boys Speak Out: Insights from School Physical Education for the Obesity Crisis – Jessica Lee: Australian Young Men’s Meanings of Physical Activity and Health: An Exploration of Social Class and Schooling.

«Kehler and Atkinson’s edited collection, ‘Boys’ Bodies’, is a book that should be read by teachers, teacher educators, education policy makers and health professionals, given its impressive theoretical and empirical focus on how the embodiment of competing masculinities plays out in schools, with implications for all boys and their well-being, and for all those wishing to understand and address issues of physical inactivity and obesity in and through schooling.» (Professor Bob Lingard, School of Education, University of Queensland)