Table of contents for "It's just easier not to go to school" / Lori Olafson.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
Background and Rationale 
to the Study Orientation 
to the Phenomenon
	The Struggle for Meaning
"Tumbling and Panic": Presentation of 
the Research Chapter Two: "A More 
Complete Telling" Chapter Three: 
Interpreting Resistance Chapter 
Four: Theoretical Framework: 
Bodies,
Relationships
			Of Power, and Regimes of 
Truth
Chapter Five: Regimes of the Body
		Chapter Six: Schooling the Body 
in Physical Education
		Chapter Seven: "The Impossible 
Underbelly of Possibility"
CHAPTER TWO: "A MORE COMPLETE TELLING"
	Introduction
	Research Sites
	Participants
	Data Collection
		Interviewing
		Field Work
		Document Analysis
		Summary
	Selves in the Field
		Brought Selves
		Research-based Selves
		Situationally Created Selves
		Tensions
	Analysis
CHAPTER THREE: INTERPRETING RESISTANCE
	Anecdotes of Truancy
Undermining Dominant Understandings 
of Resistance Resistance as 
Overt Behaviour
Resistance as a Male Phenomenon 
Possibilities for Resistance
	Resistance as Socially Constructed 
and Agentic Recent Theorizing
	Multiple Meanings
	Summary
CHAPTER FOUR: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: BODIES, 
RELATIONSHIPS OF POWER, AND REGIMES OF 
TRUTH Introduction
	Bodies
	Constituting Bodies/Constituting 
Subjects Power
		Relational Power
	Regimes/Games of Truth
CHAPTER FIVE: REGIMES OF THE BODY
	Introduction
	Institutional Regime of the Body
Producing Docile Bodies and Ordered 
Multiplicities Rules and Regulations
Compliance and the Appearance of 
Compliance Breaking Rules
			Creation
	Social Regime of the Body
		Modes of Being
Hierarchical 
Friendship Groups 
Techniques and 
Practices Effects
Watchfulness
Refusal
Achievement
	Constructing/Maintaining 
Identity Cultural Regime of the Body
		Techniques and Practices
			Losing Weight
Chewing out our Bodies
		"I'm Fat"
	Competing Regimes of Truth
CHAPTER SIX: SCHOOLING THE BODY IN 
PHYSICAL EDUCATION Introduction
	"I Hate Phys. Ed."
	Physical Education Curriculum
"Everyone's Always Watching" Spectacle and 
Display 
Looking Good/Being Popular: The Cultural and the 
Social A Site of Struggle
	Who Am I? Who Do I Wish To Be?
	Summary
CHAPTER SEVEN: "THE IMPOSSIBLE BELLY OF 
IMPOSSIBILITY Introduction
	Resistance to Identity
	Curriculums of the Regimes of the Body
Constituting a New Politics of Truth
		Moral Inquiry
		Moral Understanding and 
Teacher-Student Relationships
	Revisioning Physical Education
	Everything is Dangerous
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Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Teenage girls -- Education (Secondary) -- Social aspects -- United States.
Middle school students -- Social conditions -- United States.
Body image in adolescence -- Social aspects -- United States.
Body image in women -- Social aspects -- United States.
Feminism and education -- United States.