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 on ...

academic researcher and set up the Sociology of Childhood and Children's Rights masters' degree at the university. She argued that modern Western societies often marginalised input from children 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 or the rights of children 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 primary school-aged children. She died of cancer 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 British 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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