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The commodification of childhood : the children's clothing industry and the rise of the child consumer / Daniel Thomas Cook.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cook, Daniel Thomas, 1961-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (223 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Through a study of industry publications over much of the century, shows how the U.S. children's clothing industry produced increasingly refined categories of childhood.
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-200) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613064813
- 9781283064811
- 1283064812
- 9780822385431
- 0822385430
- OCLC:
- 652504596
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