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]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Penn, Helen (27 December 2021). "Berry Mayall obituary". The Guardian.
  2. 1 2 Morrow, Virginia (17 December 2021). "In Memoriam Berry Mayall". Childhood. 28 (4): 09075682211066391. doi:10.1177/09075682211066391. ISSN 0907-5682. S2CID 245321573.
  3. ↑ Leys, Nick (13 July 1999). "Children 'pushed aside'". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 7.
  4. ↑ "A Tribute to Professor Berry Mayall". UCL Press.
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