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Berry Mayall ( c. 1936–2021) was a British academic and sociologist.
Mayall was born in Leicester. In 1958, she graduated in English from Newnham College in the University of Cambridge. [1]
She worked at the Institute of Education (now part of the University College London) as a childhood studies academic researcher [1] and set up the Sociology of Childhood and Children's Rights masters' degree at the university. [2] She argued that modern Western societies often marginalised input from children and adolescents, [3] and saw children as oppressed within society. [1] She also noted the connections between the children's rights movement and the early 20th-century feminist movement, especially in the latter's aims to improve the health and education of primary school-aged children. [4]
She died of cancer on 25 October 2021, aged 85. [1] [2]
The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's
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Berry Mayall ( c. 1936–2021) was a British academic and sociologist.
Mayall was born in Leicester. In 1958, she graduated in English from Newnham College in the University of Cambridge. [1]
She worked at the Institute of Education (now part of the University College London) as a childhood studies academic researcher [1] and set up the Sociology of Childhood and Children's Rights masters' degree at the university. [2] She argued that modern Western societies often marginalised input from children and adolescents, [3] and saw children as oppressed within society. [1] She also noted the connections between the children's rights movement and the early 20th-century feminist movement, especially in the latter's aims to improve the health and education of primary school-aged children. [4]
She died of cancer on 25 October 2021, aged 85. [1] [2]