Children in Culture, Revisited

Further Approaches to Childhood
Herausgegeben:Lesnik-Oberstein, K.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Children in Culture, Revisited follows on from the first volume, Children in Culture , and is composed of a range of chapters, newly written for this collection, which offer further fully inter- and multidisciplinary considerations of childhood as a culturally and historically constructed identity rather than a constant psycho-biological entity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-32488-0
• 1st ed. 2011
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9781349324880
• ISBN-10: 1349324884
• Artikelnr.: 45077073

Autorenporträt

HELEN AINSLIE heads her own Dance School in Reading, UK JENNY BAVIDGE Senior Lecturer in English, University of Greenwich, UK JONATHAN BIGNELL Professor of Television and Film, University of Reading, UK ERICA BURMAN Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK ELEANOR CONLIN CASELLA Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Manchester, UK NEIL COCKS Lecturer in English, American and Children's Literature, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Reading, UK SIMON FLYNN Independent Scholar, UK DANIEL MONK Senior Lecturer in Law, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK HANNAH SMITH Lecturer in Special Educational Needs, University of Exeter, UK SARAH SPOONER Independent Scholar, UK SUE WALSH Lecturer in English, American and Children's Literature, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Reading, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Voice, Agency, and the Child; K.Lesnik-Oberstein Gender and Childhood in Neoliberal Times: Contemporary Tropes of the Boychild in Psychological Culture; E.Burman Playthings: Archaeology and the Material Ambiguities of Childhood; E.C.Casella Homophobic Bullying: A Queer Tale of Childhood Politics; D.Monk Reading the 'Happy Child': Normative Discourse in Wellbeing Education; H.Smith Perspectives and Community: Constructions of Autism and Childhood; H.Ainslie Bothering About Words: Children's Literature and Ideas of Simplicity and Instruction; S.Spooner The Child and Irony; S.Walsh Fort/ Da: A Reading of Picturing Innocence by Anne Higonnet; N.Cocks Television for Children: Problems of National Specificity and Globalisation; J.Bignell Out with Romany: Simulating the Natural in BBC Radio's Children's Hour 1932-1943; S.Flynn Vital Victims: Senses of Children in the Urban J.Bavidge Selected Bibliography Index

Rezensionen

'A timely volume that demonstrates the strength of multidisciplinary studies and takes childhood seriously.' - Maria Nikolajeva, Professor of Education, University of Cambridge, UK