Screen LibraryReinventing childhood after world war ii /
This volume brings together prominent historians of modern childhood in an effort to define how children's lives and our conceptions of childhood have changed since World War II. Essays explore how childhood has transformed in response to major elements of change, including schooling, parenting...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2012] ©2012 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
This volume brings together prominent historians of modern childhood in an effort to define how children's lives and our conceptions of childhood have changed since World War II. Essays explore how childhood has transformed in response to major elements of change, including schooling, parenting, law, culture, and the global economy. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (200 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780812205169 |
| Index Number: | HQ792 |
| CLC: | D431.9 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Child-Centered Family? New Rules in Postwar America / 2. Liberation and Caretaking: Fighting over Children s Rights in Postwar America / 3. The Changing Face of Children s Culture / 4. Ten Is the New Fourteen: Age Compression and "Real" Childhood / 5. Whose Child? Parenting and Custody in the Postwar Period / 6. Children, the State, and the American Dream / 7. Children and the Swedish Welfare State: From Different to Similar / Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |