Journeys of embodiment at the intersection of body and culture [electronic resource] : the developmental theory of embodiment / Niva Piran.

Introduction
1. Developmental theory of embodiment: discovering paths in the body journeys of girls and women
2. Qualified freedom on borrowed territories: early childhood to age eight
3. Intense transitions: tweens (ages 9-12)
4. Practice of coresting: early adolescence (ages 13-14)
5. "Perfection" of corseting: late adolescence (ages-15-17)
6. Re-capturing qualified freedom: possibilities in adultwomen's journeys
7. Charting a different future: embodied possibilites
Appendix 1. Demographic summaries of participants in the three interview studies.