Images of the child
By: edited by Harry Eiss.
Contributors: Eiss, Harry Edwin.
Publisher: Bowling Green State University Popular Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Bowling Green, OH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: Mass media and children; Children in popular culture; Children in literature; Youth in literature; Children in advertising; Toys -- Social aspects; Popular culture
Description: "This collection of articles on images of the child offers an excellent range of perspectives on an equally wide range of concerns, including advertising, girls' book series, rap music, realistic fiction, games, dolls, violence, and movies. Taken together as a book, this collection confirms the complexity of the world of childhood, and demonstrates how strongly images of the child reflect the entire culture." "For example, in the traditional nursery rhyme: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall;/ Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;/ All the king's horses and all the king's men;/ Couldn't put Humpty together again." "Father Gander, a popular rewriting of the traditional nursery rhymes meant to remove what some highly vocal adults see as negative sexual, classist, and violent images, changes it: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall;/ Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;/ All of the horses, the women and men;/ Helped put Humpty together again." "In the meantime, a current playground version goes: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall;/ Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;/ All the king's horses and all the king's men;/ Stepped on him." "Thus, the images of the child become ever more elusive. What does the future hold?"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.