Childhood in question
Subtitle: children, parents and the state
By: edited by Anthony Fletcher and Stephen Hussey
Contributors: Hussey, Stephen; Fletcher, Anthony
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Manchester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
Subjects: Children -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses; Child welfare -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses; Children -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Description: This work tackles the emotions of children themselves to explore the historical development of childhood experience. It raises issues about previous historical and sociological approaches to the question of childhood.
Notes: "Papers presented to the Childhood in Question conference held at the Department of History at the Universiy of Essex, 18-20 April 1997" -preface

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: What is a child? / Anna Davin; title: Death in childhood: the practice of the 'good death' in James Janeway's A token for children / Ralph Houlbrooke; title: Silent witnesses? Children and the breakdown of domestic and social order in early modern England / Elizabeth A. Foyster; title: 'A denial of innocence': female juvenile victims of rape and the English legal system in the eighteenth century / Julie Gammon; title: Home, play and street life: causes of, and explanations for, juvenile crime in the early nineteenth century / Heather Shore; title: Parent-child separations and colonial careers: the Talbot family correspondence in the 1880s and 1890s / Elizabeth Buettner; title: Family, community and the regulation of child sexual abuse: London, 1870-1914 / Louise A. Jackson; title: Lost childhoods: recovering children's experience of welfare in modern Scotland / Lynn Abrams