Children and Childhood in World Religions
Primary Sources and Texts
Through both the scholarly introductions and the primary sources, this comprehensive volume addresses a range of topics, from the sanctity of birth to a child’s relationship to evil, showing that issues regarding children are central to understanding world religions and raising significant questions about our own conceptions of children today.
Disrupted Childhoods
Children of Women in Prison
Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work
Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work
Raising Your Kids Right
Children's Literature and American Political Conservatism
Highlighting the works of William Bennett, Lynne Cheney, Bill O’Reilly, and others on the American political right, Michelle Ann Abate brings together such diverse fields as cultural studies, literary criticism, political science, childhood studies, brand marketing, and the cult of celebrity. Raising Your Kids Right dispels lingering societal attitudes that narratives for young readers are unworthy of serious political study by examining a variety of texts that offer information, ideology, and even instructions on how to raise kids right, not just figuratively but politically.
Contesting Childhood
Autobiography, Trauma, and Memory
Drawing on trauma and memory studies and theories of authorship and readership, Contesting Childhood offers commentary on the triumphs, trials, and tribulations that have shaped the genre of autobiographical writings about childhood. Douglas examines the content of the narratives and the limits of their representations, as well as some of the ways in which autobiographies of youth have become politically important and influential.
Between Good and Ghetto
African American Girls and Inner-City Violence
We Fight To Win
Inequality and the Politics of Youth Activism
Translating Childhoods
Immigrant Youth, Language, and Culture
Children and Childhood in American Religions
Pleasures and Perils
Girls' Sexuality in a Caribbean Consumer Culture
Pleasures and Perils
Girls' Sexuality in a Caribbean Consumer Culture
Inventing Modern Adolescence
The Children of Immigrants in Turn-of-the-Century America
Risky Lessons
Sex Education and Social Inequality
Designing Modern Childhoods
History, Space, and the Material Culture of Children
Growing Girls
The Natural Origins of Girls' Organizations in America
Susan A. Miller explores these girls' organizations that sprung up in the first half of the twentieth century from a socio-historical perspective, showing how the notions of uniform identity, civic duty, "primitive domesticity," and fitness shaped the formation of the modern girl.
Girls in Trouble with the Law
Vietnam's Children in a Changing World
Burr presents the voices and experiences of Vietnamese children in the streets, in a reform school, and in an orphanage to show that workable solutions have become lost within the rhetoric propagated by aid organizations. The reality of providing primary education or adequate healthcare for all children, for instance, does not stand a chance of being achieved until adequate resources are put in place. Yet, organizations preoccupied with the child rights agenda are failing to acknowledge the distorted global distribution of wealth in favor of Western nations.
Imagined Orphans
Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London
In Imagined Orphans, Lydia Murdoch focuses on this discrepancy between the representation and the reality of children’s experiences within welfare institutions—a discrepancy that she argues stems from conflicts over middle- and working-class notions of citizenship that arose in the 1870s and persisted until the First World War. Reformers’ efforts to depict poor children as either orphaned or endangered by abusive or “no-good” parents fed upon the poor’s increasing exclusion from the Victorian social body. Reformers used the public’s growing distrust and pitiless attitude toward poor adults to increase charity and state aid to the children.
Armies of the Young
Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism
Rethinking Childhood
In Rethinking Childhood, twenty contributors, coming from the disciplines of anthropology, government, law, psychology, education, religion, philosophy, and sociology, provide a multidisciplinary view of childhood by listening and understanding the ways children shape their own futures. Topics include education, poverty, family life, divorce, neighborhood life, sports, the internet, and legal status.
At Play in Belfast
Children's Folklore and Identities in Northern Ireland
In Sickness and in Play
Children Coping with Chronic Illness
Race in the Schoolyard
Negotiating the Color Line in Classrooms and Communities
Race in the Schoolyard takes us to a place most of us seldom get to see in action¾ our children's classrooms¾ and reveals the lessons about race that are communicated there. Amanda E. Lewis spent a year observing classes at three elementary schools, two multiracial urban and one white suburban. While race of course is not officially taught like multiplication and punctuation, she finds that it nonetheless insinuates itself into everyday life in schools.