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The children's culture reader / edited by Henry Jenkins.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : New York University Press, c1998.Description: ix, 532 p. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0814742319 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780814742310 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0814742327 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780814742327 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.23 JEN
Contents:
From immodesty to innocence -- The case of Peter Pan : the impossibility of children's fiction -- Children in the house : the material culture of early childhood -- From useful to useless : moral conflict over child labor -- The making of children's culture -- Seducing the innocent : childhood and television in postwar America -- Unlearning black and white : race, media and the classroom -- The new childhood : home alone as a way of life -- Child abuse and the unconscious in American popular culture -- Fun morality : an analysis of recent American child-training literature -- The sensuous child : Benjamin Spock and the sexual revolution -- How to bring your kids up gay -- Producing erotic children -- Popular culture and the eroticization of little girls -- Stealing innocence : the politics of child beauty pageants -- A credit to her mother -- Children's desires/mothers' dilemmas : the social contexts of consumption -- Boys and girls together ... but mostly apart -- Boy culture -- The politics of dollhood in nineteenth-century America -- Older heads on younger bodies -- Confections, concoctions, and conceptions -- Living in a world of words -- The tidy house -- Reaching juvenile markets -- Does your research embrace the boy of today? -- Selling food to children -- After the family-what? -- Against the threat of mother love -- Children in wartime : parents' questions -- You are citizen soldiers -- Raise your boy to be a soldier -- Such trivia as comic books -- The play's the thing -- New parents for old -- Families and the world outside -- Time bombs in our homes -- Democratic and autocratic child rearing -- The contemporary mother and father -- The new oedipal drama of the permissive family -- The modern pediocracy.
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Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 305.23 JEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100343509

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Examines children as creative and critical thinkers who shape society even as it shapes them
Every major political and social dispute of the twentieth century has been fought on the backs of our children, from the economic reforms of the progressive era through the social readjustments of civil rights era and on to the current explosion of anxieties about everything from the national debt to the digital revolution. Far from noncombatants whom we seek to protect from the contamination posed by adult knowledge, children form the very basis on which we fight over the nature and values of our society, and over our hopes and fears for the future.
Unfortunately, our understanding of childhood and children has not kept pace with their crucial and rapidly changing roles in our culture. Pulling together a range of different thinkers who have rethought the myths of childhood innocence, The Children's Culture Reader develops a profile of children as creative and critical thinkers who shape society even as it shapes them. Representing a range of thinking from history, psychology, anthropology, sociology, economics, women's studies, literature, and media studies, The Children's Culture Reader focuses on issues of parent-child relations, child labor, education, play, and especially the relationship of children to mass media and consumer culture. The contributors include Martha Wolfenstein, Philippe Aries, Jacqueline Rose, James Kincaid, Lynn Spigel, Valerie Walkerdine, Ellen Seiter, Annette Kuhn, Eve Sedgwick, Henry Giroux, and Nancy Scheper-Hughes.
Including a groundbreaking introduction by the editor and a sourcebook section which excerpts a range of material from popular magazines to child rearing guides from the past 75 years, The Children's Culture Reader will propel our understanding of children and childhood into the next century.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From immodesty to innocence -- The case of Peter Pan : the impossibility of children's fiction -- Children in the house : the material culture of early childhood -- From useful to useless : moral conflict over child labor -- The making of children's culture -- Seducing the innocent : childhood and television in postwar America -- Unlearning black and white : race, media and the classroom -- The new childhood : home alone as a way of life -- Child abuse and the unconscious in American popular culture -- Fun morality : an analysis of recent American child-training literature -- The sensuous child : Benjamin Spock and the sexual revolution -- How to bring your kids up gay -- Producing erotic children -- Popular culture and the eroticization of little girls -- Stealing innocence : the politics of child beauty pageants -- A credit to her mother -- Children's desires/mothers' dilemmas : the social contexts of consumption -- Boys and girls together ... but mostly apart -- Boy culture -- The politics of dollhood in nineteenth-century America -- Older heads on younger bodies -- Confections, concoctions, and conceptions -- Living in a world of words -- The tidy house -- Reaching juvenile markets -- Does your research embrace the boy of today? -- Selling food to children -- After the family-what? -- Against the threat of mother love -- Children in wartime : parents' questions -- You are citizen soldiers -- Raise your boy to be a soldier -- Such trivia as comic books -- The play's the thing -- New parents for old -- Families and the world outside -- Time bombs in our homes -- Democratic and autocratic child rearing -- The contemporary mother and father -- The new oedipal drama of the permissive family -- The modern pediocracy.

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