Childism : confronting prejudice against children / Elisabeth Young-Bruehl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children.

Age discrimination.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this groundbreaking volume on the human rights of children, acclaimed analyst, political theorist, and biographer Elisabeth Young-Bruehl argues that prejudice exists against children as a group and that it is comparable to racism, sexism, and homophobia. This prejudice-"childism"-legitimates and rationalizes a broad continuum of acts that are not "in the best interests of children," including the often violent extreme of child abuse and neglect. According to Young-Bruehl, reform is possible only if we acknowledge this prejudice in its basic forms and address the motives and cultural forces that drive it, rather than dwell on the various categories of abuse and punishment."There will always be individuals and societies that turn on their children," writes Young-Bruehl, "breaking the natural order Aristotle described two and a half millennia ago in his Nichomachean Ethics." In Childism, Young-Bruehl focuses especially on the ways in which Americans have departed from the child-supportive trends of the Great Society and of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.Many years in the making, Childism draws upon a wide range of sources, from the literary and philosophical to the legal and psychoanalytic. Woven into this extraordinary volume are case studies that illuminate the profound importance of listening to the victims who have so much to tell us about the visible and invisible ways in which childism is expressed.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: What's In A Word?

Chapter 1. Anatomy Of A Prejudice

Chapter 2. Three Forms Of Childism: Anna's Story

Chapter 3. Child Abuse And Neglect: A Study In Confusion

Chapter 4. The Politicization Of Child Abuse

Chapter 5. Mass Hysteria And Child Sexual Abuse

Chapter 6. Forms Of Childism In Families

Chapter 7. Education And The End Of Childism

Bibliographic Essay

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613409065

9781283409063

1283409062

9780300178500

0300178506

OCLC:

994604159