ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines the ideology behind the cultural constructions of the child's body and the impact they have on society, as well as how the child's body becomes a carrier of cultural ideology within the cultural imagination. It highlights the ideological forces behind the cultural constructions of the child's body and the impact they have on society. The book focuses on the politicization of race, gender, and class in relation to the body project. It also examines flesh-and-blood bodies that engage with literary texts and other media. Overt racism, sexism, and homophobia are certainly not the only ways in which our bodies can invite hostile reactions, although these aspects of the embodied self are often entwined with each other and with other prejudices such as fat prejudice.
