Roxanne Harde is Professor of English and Associate Dean (Research) at the Augustana Faculty of the University of Alberta.Lydia Kokkola is Head of English and Education at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden.

• AcknowledgementsThe Embodied Child: An IntroductionLydia KokkolaChapter 1. Anne’s Body Has a Mind (and a Soul) of Its Own: Embodiment and the Cartesian Legacy in Anne of Green GablesJanet WesseliusSection 1: PoliticizationsChapter 2. Learning Not to Hate What We Are: Black Power, Literature, and the Black ChildKaren Sands-O’ConnorChapter 3. "It’s my skin that’s paid most dearly": Katniss Everdeen and/as the Appalachian BodyRoxanne HardeChapter 4. Invisibility and (Dis)Embodiment in Louise O’Neill’s Only Ever YoursHeather BraunChapter 5. From the Kitchen to the Edges: The Politics of Hair in African American Children’s Picture BooksMichelle Martin and Rachelle WashingtonSection 2: CorporealitiesChapter 6. Disciplining Normalcy: What Katy Did and Nineteenth-Century Female BodiesJulie Pfeiffer and Darla SchummChapter 7. Embodying the Healthy, Charitable Child in the Junior Red CrossKristine MoruziChapter 8. Liberty in the Age of Eugenics: Non-normative Bodies in Fabian Socialist Children’s FictionAmanda HollanderSection 3: Reading BodiesChapter 9. Embodied Readings of Blackfoot Place and IdentityErin SpringChapter 10. The Flourishing Child: Representations of Embodied Wellbeing in Contemporary PicturebooksAdrielle BrittenChapter 11. The Child’s Reading BodyMargaret MackeyChapter 12. Hands on Reading: The Body, the Brain and the BookLydia KokkolaSection 4: CommodificationsChapter 13. "Little cooks": Food and the Disciplined Body in Nineteenth-Century Stories for GirlsSamantha Christensen and Roxanne HardeChapter 14. Break Dancing: Reading the Ballerina in To DanceJennifer MiskecChapter 15. Embodied Performances by Lesbian Cheerleaders and Dancers in Glee and Leading LadiesKate NorburyChapter 16. A Dolla Makes Her Holla: The 21st -Century Sexualized, Knowing Child of Reality TVLance WeldyNotes on ContributorsIndex

"Overall, the work presented in this volume provides readers with a wide range of perspectives and theories around the body and embodiment as it relates to the (mostly older) child in popular culture—offering scholars of child studies, children’s literature, and education a foundational collection through which to explore the interrelated, fluid boundaries of child, body, and text." Caroline Hamilton-McKenna, University of British Columbia, Vancouver