Designing modern childhoods
Subtitle: history, space, and the material culture of children
By: edited by Marta Gutman and Ning de Coninck-Smith ; foreword by Paula S. Fass.
Contributors: Gutman, Marta.; De Coninck-Smith, Ning.
Series: The Rutgers series in childhood studies
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813541952; 9780813541969
Subjects: Children -- History; Children -- Social conditions; Children -- Social life and customs; Architecture and children; Children's paraphernalia; Child consumers; Children and adults -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Landscapes are good for thinking about children with / Marta Gutman and Ning de Coninck-Smith; title: Connecting with the landscape : campfires and youth culture at American summer camps, 1890-1950 / Abigail A. Van Slyck; title: A (better) home away from home : the emergence of children's hospitals in an age of women's reform / David C. Sloane; title: Sick children and the thresholds of domesticity : the Dawson-Harrington families at home / Annmarie Adams and Peter Gossage; title: The "Meyers Park experiment" in Auckland, New Zealand, 1913-1916 / Anine Cusins-Lewer and Julia Gatley; title: A breath of fresh air : open-air schools in Europe / Anne-Marie Chatelet; title: Molding the republican generation : the landscapes of learning in early republican Turkey / Zeynep Kezer; title: Nomadic schools in Senegal : manifestations of integration or ritual performance? / Kristine Juul; title: Adventure playgrounds and postwar reconstruction / Roy Kozlovsky; title: The view from the back step : white children learn about race in Johannesburg's suburban homes / Rebecca Ginsburg; title: Children and the Rosenwald schools of the American South / Mary S. Hoffschwelle; title: The geographies and identities of street girls in Indonesia / Harriot Beazley; title: Coming of age in suburbia : gifting the consumer child / Alison J. Clarke; title: Inscribing Nordic childhoods at Mcdonald's / Helene Brembeck; title: "Board with the world" : youthful approaches to landscapes and mediascapes / Olav Christensen; title: Migrating media : anime media mixes and the childhood imagination / Mizuko Ito; title: Epilogue: The islanding of children : reshaping the mythical landscapes of childhood / John R. Gillis.