Berry Mayall (–2021) was a British academic and sociologist. Mayall was born in

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. In 1958, she graduated in English from

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in the

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. She worked at the

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(now part of the

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) as a

childhood studies Childhood studies or children's studies (CS) is a multidisciplinary field that seeks to understand the experience of childhood, both historically and in the contemporary world. CS views childhood as "a complex social phenomenon" with an emphasis o ...

academic researcher and set up the Sociology of Childhood and Children's Rights

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at the university. She argued that modern

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societies often marginalised input from

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and

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, and saw children as oppressed within society. She also noted the connections between the

children's rights Children's rights are a subset of human rights with particular attention to the rights of special protection and care afforded to minors.

movement and the early 20th-century feminist movement, especially in the latter's aims to improve the health and education of

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-aged children. She died of

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on 25 October 2021, aged 85.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mayall, Berry 1930s births 2021 deaths Year of birth uncertain British women sociologists Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge People associated with University College London Children's rights activists English feminists 20th-century scholars 21st-century British educators British sociologists British women academics 21st-century British women educators 20th-century British educators 20th-century British women educators

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