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Critical Childhood Studies and the Practice of Interdisciplinarity : Disciplining the Child.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Children and Youth in Popular Culture SeriesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (192 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498525763
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Critical Childhood Studies and the Practice of InterdisciplinarityLOC classification:
  • HQ767.85.C75 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Child in Memory -- 1 Locating the Child within the History of Childhood -- 2 Theorizing Childhood in Second-Wave Feminism -- 3 "Ancestral Guilt" -- Part II: The Child in Imagination -- 4 The Nature of the Child and the Child of Nature -- 5 Humanity's Little Scrap Dealers -- 6 Childhood, Character, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel -- Part III: The Institutionalized Child -- 7 Investment, Risk, and Other Ways of Thinking about Children -- 8 Discursive Children -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors.
Summary: This book analyzes figurations of childhood in contemporary culture and politics focusing on critical childhood studies. Looking at critical discussions of the ideological, symbolic and affective roles that children play in contemporary societies suggest that they are often the locus of larger societal crises, and unspoken prohibitions and taboos.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Child in Memory -- 1 Locating the Child within the History of Childhood -- 2 Theorizing Childhood in Second-Wave Feminism -- 3 "Ancestral Guilt" -- Part II: The Child in Imagination -- 4 The Nature of the Child and the Child of Nature -- 5 Humanity's Little Scrap Dealers -- 6 Childhood, Character, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel -- Part III: The Institutionalized Child -- 7 Investment, Risk, and Other Ways of Thinking about Children -- 8 Discursive Children -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors.

This book analyzes figurations of childhood in contemporary culture and politics focusing on critical childhood studies. Looking at critical discussions of the ideological, symbolic and affective roles that children play in contemporary societies suggest that they are often the locus of larger societal crises, and unspoken prohibitions and taboos.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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