The Commodification of Childhood: The Children’s Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer
“Blending the sociologist’s theoretical rigor with the historian’s attention to detail and change, Daniel Thomas Cook offers us a striking and original explanation of how twentieth-century notions of childhood together with new marketing practices led to the modern autonomous child.”—Gary Cross, author ofThe Cute and the Cool: Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children’s Culture