The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World 1st Edition by Paula S Fass ISBN 0415782325 9780415782326

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ISBN 13: 9780415782326
Author: Paula S Fass

The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Childhood in the Ancient World, The Middle Ages, and Early Modern Europe

1. Images of Childhood in Classical Antiquity

• Introduction

• Formation

• Realities

• Cultural constants

• Living conditions

• Historical change

• Conclusions

• Notes

• Suggestions for further reading

2. Children in Judaism and Christianity

• The Bible and the child

• Jews and Christians confront the Greco–Roman world

• Medieval continuities: the legacy of the Judeo-Christian pro-child ideal, 500 to 1500 CE

• Conclusion

• Notes

• Suggestions for further reading

3. Childhood in Medieval and Early Modern Times

• Economy and demography

• Class and gender

• Stages of childhood development: infancy

• Stages of childhood development: from infant to adolescent

• Notes

• Suggestions for further reading

• Abandonment and infanticide; poverty and charity

• Childbirth and infancy

• Childhood, general histories and historiography

• Childhood, the early modern period

• Childhood, the medieval period

• Childhood, the Renaissance period

• Domestic service

• Economy and demography

• Family and household

• Schooling

4. Childhood and the Enlightenment

• The complications of innocence

• “To preserve children’s innocence”: medicine and masturbation

• “When I imagine a child”: innocence and violation

• “In aging I become a child again”: memory and identity

• Conclusion: Mother Goose and The Magic Flute

• Notes

• Suggestions for further reading

• Important primary works relevant to childhood and the Enlightenment

• Some important secondary works

Part II: Creating Childhoods in the Western World Since 1500

5. Parent–Child Relations in Western Europe and North America, 1500–Present

• Popular misconceptions about parents and children of the past

• Transatlantic influences

• The variability of parent–child relationships

• Extensive, intensive, and “intentional” parenting

• Fathers as parents, mothers as care-givers

• The erosion of deference: mothers, fathers, daughters, sons

• The era of the mother: intensive parenting

• Intentional parenting in the twentieth and twenty-first century

• Notes

• Suggestions for further reading

6. Children’s Work in Countryside and City

• Changing patterns of employment for children

• Working the land

• Employment in the craft economy

• The impact of industrialization

• The service sector

• Child work and child welfare

• The decline of child labor

• Conclusion

• Notes

• Suggestions for further reading

• General surveys

• National and regional case studies

• Some influential case studies

7. Children and War

• Children and the nature of warfare

• Families in wartime

• Children and youths engaging in war

• Child welfare and war

• Aftermaths: children of war in peacetime

• Notes

• Suggestions for further reading

• General Accounts

• Books on the experiences of children and youth in wartime

• Books on government policies related to children during and after wars

8. Childhood Emotions in Modern Western History

• Suggestions for further reading

• On premodern childhood

• Relevant surveys of the history of childhood

• On developments in the eighteenth–nineteenth centuries

• Useful studies of emotion and emotion history

• On developments in the nineteenth–twentieth centuries

9. Children and the State

• Notes

• Suggestions for further reading

• General accounts

• Citizenship, rights, and the state

• Crime

• Education

• Labor

• Welfare

10. The Vexed History of Children and Sex

• Notes

• Suggestions for further reading

• Overviews and Theoretical Claims

• Children’s experience

• Sexual abuse and child protection

• Children as sexual agents

11. Age, Schooling, and Development

• Age and the transformation of political authority in the “age of reason”

• Popular schooling and the rise of age grading

• Age exactitude and the developmental paradigm

• Notes

• Suggestions for further reading

• General

• Debate on Ariès

• Education

• Child rearing

• “Measuring” children

• Developmental psychology and its history

12. Making Adolescence More or Less Modern

• Early modern youth: navigating patriarchy (1500s–1700s)

• Making adolescence modern (1750s–1904)

• Modern adolescence and the great state (1900s–1940s)

• Teenagers as more or less adolescent (1945–1970s)

• Youth less adolescence? (1970s–2000s)

• Conclusion: contempt or collaboration?

• Notes

• Suggestions for further reading

• Anthologies

• Surveys

• Monographs

13. The Physical Spaces of Childhood

• At home

• In school

• At play

• In public

• Notes

• Suggestions for further reading

• General accounts and bibliographies

• At home

• In school

• At play

• In public

14. Play, Games, and Toys

• Play and playthings in the premodern West

• Industrialization and the shift of play to children

• Emerging patterns of play: adult control and indulgence

• Modern toys: commercialization, autonomy, and panic

• Suggestions for further reading

• Preindustrial Play

• American play and playthings

• European and global play and playthings

15. Children as Consumers

• History and historiography

• Eighteenth century

• Nineteenth century

• Twentieth century

• Concluding discussion

• Notes

• Suggestions for further reading

16. Picturing Childhood in the Modern West

• Notes

• Suggestions for further reading

17. Children’s Literature

• Origins and history

• The Western canon of children’s literature

• Themes

• Toward new definitions of childhood and literature

• Suggestions for further reading

Part III: Special Children at Special Times or Places

18. Children in North American Slavery

• Recent directions in the study of slavery

• Children and the slave trade

• Fertility and childbirth

• Children’s experience of slavery

• Autobiographical accounts of slave childhoods

• Slave childhood as an arena of conflict

• Slave children and the valorization of childhood

• Slavery’s aftermath

• Notes

• Suggestions for further reading

19. Mixed-Race Children in the American West

• Conquest and its categories

• Children and racialization: erased by nostalgia

• Two governors and their children

• The Drips: race and family choice on another frontier

• When it stops making sense: mixed-race children and the state

• Notes

• Suggestions for further reading

• Children, families, and fur trade

• Race and ethnicity

20. Infanticide, Abortion, Children, and Childhood in Sweden, 1000–1980

• Negotiating meaning – infanticide – between popular culture, state, and the church

• Prolonging the fetal period and child saving – conflicting terms

• The medical profession and parliamentary discussions – conflicting views

• Abortion – a crime or a social problem?

• Bio-politics – the politics of abortion law

• Conclusion

• Notes

• Suggestions for further reading

• Identity of the fetus

• Infanticide

• Abortion and the law

• Abortion, politics and welfare

21. Social Welfare in the Western World and the Rights of Children

• Transnational perspectives on juvenile delinquency

• Do child welfare models exist?

• Authority over the child and national legal measures

• Conclusion

• Notes

• Suggestions for further reading

• Child abandonment and institutions

• Juvenile offenders and juvenile justice

• Protecting/controlling the child

• The rights of the child

22. Children as Vagrants, Vagabonds, and Thieves in Nineteenth-Century America

• Notes

• Suggestions for further reading

23. Children in Scouting and Other Organizations

• The formal cultures of youth organizations

• The organizations’ programs

• Summer camps

• Youth sports

• The culture wars, 1980s–present

• The informal cultures of youth organizations

• Conclusion

• Notes

• Suggestions for further reading

• Histories of Boy Scouts, Girls Scouts, and other organizations

• History of summer camps

• Folk cultures of children and adolescents

• Ethnographies of youth cultures in organizations

24. New Opportunities for Children in the Great Depression in the United States

• The onset of the Great Depression and America’s children

• The building blocks of modern American childhood

• Modern childhood and popular culture

• The Great Depression and American children

• Notes

• Suggestions for further reading

25. Childhood and Youth in Nazi Germany

• Notes

• Suggestions for further reading

26. International Child Saving

• Introduction

• Child saving before the First World War

• International child saving during the First World War

• The immediate aftermath of the First World War

• Child saving in the interwar years and the League of Nations

• International child saving, national socialism, the Second World War and its aftermath

• Recent problems in historical perspective

• Acknowledgements

• Notes

• Suggestions for further reading

• Overviews

• Cases of international child saving

27. Latin American Childhoods and the Concept of Modernity

• Global discourses of modern childhood

• Modernization and the production of “non-modern” childhoods

• The limits of diffusion

• Contemporary child rights as a metric of modernity

• Notes

• Suggestions for further reading

• Historiographic/conceptual overviews

• Edited volumes/special journal issues

• Children and social inequalities/state structures

• Children and labor

• Child circulation

• Child saving

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