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The commodification of childhood : the children's clothing industry and the rise of the child consumer / Daniel Thomas Cook.
Van Pelt Library HQ792.U5 C673 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cook, Daniel Thomas, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children--United States--History.
- Children.
- Adolescence--United States--History.
- Adolescence.
- Child consumers--United States--History.
- Child consumers.
- Teenage consumers--United States--History.
- Teenage consumers.
- Children's clothing industry--United States--History.
- Children's clothing industry.
- Mother and child--United States--History.
- Mother and child.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 211 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- A brief history of childhood and motherhood into the twentieth century
- Merchandising, motherhood, and morality : industry origins and child welfare, 1917-1929
- Pediocularity : from the child's point of view
- Reconfiguring girlhood : age grading, size ranges, and aspirational merchandising in the 1930s
- Baby booms and market booms : teen and subteen girls in the postwar marketplace
- Concluding thoughts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-200) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0822332795
- 082233268X
- OCLC:
- 52721180
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