The American child : a cultural studies reader / edited by Caroline F. Levander and Carol J. Singley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levander, Caroline Field, 1964-

Singley, Carol J., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--United States--History.

Children.

Children--United States--Social conditions.

History.

United States.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

viii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2003]

Contents:

Child's play / Gillian Brown

Playing at class / Karen Sánchez-Eppler

The miniaturizing of girlhood : nineteenth-century play time and gendered theories of development / Melanie Dawson

Of babies, beasts, and bondage : slavery and the question of citizenship in antebellum American children's literature / Lesley Ginsberg

Betsy and the canon / Kelly Hager

Traumatic realism and the wounded child / Jane F. Thrailkill

Constructing the psychoanalytic child : Freud's history of an infantile neurosis / Michelle A. Massé

Black babies, white hysteria : the dark child in African-American literature of the Harlem renaissance / Laura Dawkins

Lewis Hine's family romance / Richard S. Lowry

On boyhood and public swimming : Sidney Kingsley's Dead end and representations of underclass street kids in American cultural production / Jeffrey Turner

The pedagogy of the popular front : "progressive parenting" for a new generation, 1918-1945 / Julia Mickenberg

"Please let me come home" : homesickness and family ties at early-twentieth-century summer camps / Leslie Paris

Transformative terrains : Korean adoptees and the social constructions of an American childhood / Catherine Ceniza Choy and Gregory Paul Choy

Reel origins: multiculturalism, history, and the American children's movie / Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813532221

081353223X

OCLC:

51266247