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The American child : a cultural studies reader

Title
The American child : a cultural studies reader / edited by Caroline F. Levander and Carol J. Singley.
ISBN
0813532221 (hardcover : alk. paper)
081353223X (paperback : alk. paper)
Published
New Brunswick, N.J. ; London : Rutgers University Press, c2003.
Physical Description
viii, 318 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 01, 2003
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Child's play / Gillian Brown
Playing at class / Karen Sánchez-Eppler
The miniaturizing of girlhood : nineteenth-century playtime and gendered theories of development / Melanie Dawson
Of babies, beasts, and bondage : slavery and the question of citizenship in antebellum American children's literature / Lesley Ginsberg
Betsy and the canon / Kelly Hager
Traumatic realism and the wounded child / Jane F. Thrailkill
Constructing the psychoanalytic child : Freud's From the history of an infantile neurosis / Michelle A. Massé
Black babies, white hysteria : the dark child in African-American literature of the Harlem renaissance / Laura Dawkins
Lewis Hine's family romance / Richard S. Lowry
On boyhood and public swimming : Sidney Kingsley's Dead end and representations of underclass street kids in American cultural production / Jeffrey Turner
The pedagogy of the popular front : "progressive parenting" for a new generation, 1918-1945 / Julia Mickenberg
Please let me come home : homesickness and family ties at early-twentieth-century summer camps / Leslie Paris
Transformative terrains : Korean adoptees and the social constructions of an American childhood / Catherine Ceniza Choy and Gregory Paul Choy
Reel origins : multiculturalism, history, and the American children's movie / Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez.
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