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Suffering childhood in early America : violence, race, and the making of the child victim / Anna Mae Duane.
Van Pelt Library HQ792.U5 D795 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Duane, Anna Mae, 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children--United States--Social conditions.
- Children.
- Ethnicity.
- History.
- Suffering.
- Victims.
- United States.
- Social conditions.
- Violence--United States--History.
- Violence.
- Victims--United States--History.
- Suffering--Political aspects--United States--History.
- Political culture--United States--History.
- Political culture.
- Ethnicity--United States--History.
- Racism--United States--History.
- Racism.
- Sex role--United States--History.
- Sex role.
- United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- United States--Social conditions--To 1865.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- Introduction: suffering childhood in early America
- Children in the hands of Satan : captivity, witch trials, and the dangerous child
- This infant state : the child nation and infanticide in the early republic
- Pregnancy and the new birth : reproduction, performance, and infantilizing republican mothers
- The revolutionary child : slavery, affective contracts, and the future perfect
- Epilogue: the materials and metaphors of schoolwork.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780820333830
- 0820333832
- OCLC:
- 467360487
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