Children in Culture, Revisited [electronic resource] : Further Approaches to Childhood /
Lesnik-Oberstein, K.editor.
Children in Culture, Revisited follows on from the first volume, Children in Culture , and is composed of a range of chapters, newly written for this collection, which offer further fully inter- and multidisciplinary considerations of childhood as a culturally and historically constructed identity rather than a constant psycho-biological entity.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half title; Also by; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction: Voice, Agency and the Child; 1 Gender and Childhood in Neoliberal Times: Contemporary Tropes of the Boychild in Psychological Culture; 2 Playthings: Archaeology and the Material Ambiguities of Childhood; 3 Homophobic Bullying: AQueer Tale of Childhood Politics; 4 Reading the 'Happy Child': Normative Discourse in Wellbeing Education; 5 Perspectives and Community: Constructions of Autism and Childhood
6 Bothering about Words: Children's Literature and Ideas of Simplicity and Instruction7 Irony and the Child; 8 Fort/Da: AReading of Pictures of Innocence by Anne Higonnet; 9 Television for Children: Problems of National Specificity and Globalization; 10 Out with Romany: Simulating the Natural in BBC Radio's Children's Hour 1932-1943; 11 Vital Victims: Senses of Children in the Urban; Selected Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Children in Culture, Revisited follows on from the first volume, Children in Culture , and is composed of a range of chapters, newly written for this collection, which offer further fully inter- and multidisciplinary considerations of childhood as a culturally and historically constructed identity rather than a constant psycho-biological entity.
Children's literature.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Childhood.
Adolescence.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Children's Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Childhood, Adolescence and Society.
Twentieth-Century Literature.