This book analyzes figurations of childhood in contemporary culture and politics focusing on critical childhood studies. Looking at critical discussions of the ideological, symbolic and affective roles that children play in contemporary societies suggest that they are often the locus of larger societal crises, and unspoken prohibitions and taboos.
This book analyzes figurations of childhood in contemporary culture and politics focusing on critical childhood studies. Looking at critical discussions of the ideological, symbolic and affective roles that children play in contemporary societies suggest that they are often the locus of larger societal crises, and unspoken prohibitions and taboos.
Joanne Faulkner lectures in philosophy and women's and gender studies at the University of New South Wales. Magdalena Zolkos is senior research fellow at the Institute for Social Justice, Australian Catholic University.
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Introduction, Joanne Faulkner and Magdalena Zolkos Part One: The Child in Memory Chapter One: Locating the Child within the History of Childhood, Shurlee Swain Chapter Two: Theorizing Childhood in Second-Wave Feminism: A Re-Reading of Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch (1970), Isobelle Barrett Meyering Chapter Three: "Ancestral Guilt": Childhood as Redemption and the Question of Nazi Descendancy in German Cultural Memory, Magdalena Zolkos Part Two: The Child in Imagination Chapter Four: The Nature of the Child and the Child of Nature: Historical and Contemporary Continuities, Gail Hawkes and Danielle Egan Chapter Five: Humanity's Little Scrap Dealers: The Child at Play in Modern Philosophy and Implications for Sexualization Discourse, Joanne Faulkner Chapter Six: Childhood, Character, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Elizabeth Drumm Part Three: The Institutionalized Child Chapter Seven: Investment, Risk, and Other Ways of Thinking About Children, kylie valentine Chapter Eight: Discursive Children: Stolen or Just Forgotten? Racial Politics and the Figure of "the Child" in an Australian Culture of Liberalism, Emily Soper About the Contributors
Introduction, Joanne Faulkner and Magdalena Zolkos Part One: The Child in Memory Chapter One: Locating the Child within the History of Childhood, Shurlee Swain Chapter Two: Theorizing Childhood in Second-Wave Feminism: A Re-Reading of Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch (1970), Isobelle Barrett Meyering Chapter Three: "Ancestral Guilt": Childhood as Redemption and the Question of Nazi Descendancy in German Cultural Memory, Magdalena Zolkos Part Two: The Child in Imagination Chapter Four: The Nature of the Child and the Child of Nature: Historical and Contemporary Continuities, Gail Hawkes and Danielle Egan Chapter Five: Humanity's Little Scrap Dealers: The Child at Play in Modern Philosophy and Implications for Sexualization Discourse, Joanne Faulkner Chapter Six: Childhood, Character, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Elizabeth Drumm Part Three: The Institutionalized Child Chapter Seven: Investment, Risk, and Other Ways of Thinking About Children, kylie valentine Chapter Eight: Discursive Children: Stolen or Just Forgotten? Racial Politics and the Figure of "the Child" in an Australian Culture of Liberalism, Emily Soper About the Contributors
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