Age groups: children Books
Harvard University Press Childrens Chances How Countries Can Move from
Book SynopsisChildrenâs Chances urges a shift from focusing on survival to targeting childrenâs full and healthy development. Drawing on comparative data on policies in 190 countries designed to combat poverty, discrimination, child labor, illiteracy, and child marriage, Heymann and McNeill tell what works to ensure equal opportunities for all children.Trade ReviewWith its amazing synthesis of evidence, Children's Chances maps out what countries are now doing—and what more they can do—to address problems in the lives of children around the world. This book is a valuable resource, not just for agencies like Save the Children, but for individual citizens who champion all children's opportunities to develop to their fullest potential. -- Jasmine Whitbread, CEO, Save the ChildrenJody Heymann continues to be a leading voice for working families worldwide. With Children's Chances, she provides key insights into how to promote healthy child development and reduce inequalities in child health. This book is essential for anyone who cares about improving the lives of children around the world. -- Mark Schuster, Harvard Medical SchoolThis remarkable book brings together years of work that is both painstaking and inspired. Jody Heymann, with Kristen McNeill, proves with exhaustive country-by-country evidence the phenomenal difference that public policy makes in defeating child poverty and creating better lives. It is an enormously important achievement. -- Peter Edelman, Georgetown UniversityWith sterling scholarship and masterful research, Heymann and McNeill's book offers a blueprint to advance the well-being of the world's children that is both much needed and optimistic. -- Felton Earls, Harvard Medical SchoolIf we are to reach the millions of children who have been excluded from recent progress on child rights, we need to know where we stand today, and where we need to go tomorrow. We need tools that give us this crucial information, tools that share it, and tools that inspire and guide us. This book provides that inspiration and guidance, showing how crucial policies can guarantee the well-being of children worldwide. -- Carol Bellamy, Past Executive Director, UNICEFNo previous analysis has so conveniently compiled comprehensive global information about such a wide range of public policies related to child development. -- K. H. Jacobsen * Choice *
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Harvard University Press A Doctor of Their Own
Book SynopsisThe first book to trace the history of adolescent medicine, A Doctor of Their Own draws on oral histories of physicians in the field, patient records from adolescent medical facilities, medical and popular advice literature, and letters from teenagers and their parents.Trade Review[Prescott] reviews the social and medical events that focused the national agenda on addressing problems unique to teenagers, and she relates the early work of the founder of adolescent medicine, J. Roswell Gallagher, and his clinic at the Boston Children's Hospital in 1952. The final chapter tracks the conceptual changes in adolescent medicine since the 1960s up to its establishment as a board-certified medical subspecialty of pediatrics in 1991. A well-written analysis and clear narrative of the development of adolescent medicine. -- G. Eknoyan * Choice *In her fascinating study of the emergence of adolescent medicine, Heather Munro Prescott describes...the history of medicine from the perspective of social history...[She] reveals much about experts' views of adolescence and the role of medicine in coping with youthful angst, illness, and rebellion in the twentieth century...Prescott's thoughtful rendering of the interplay between teens, their parents, and medical professionals further underscores the relevance of the history of medicine to the social history of childhood and adolescence. -- Julia Grant * H-Net Reviews *Prescott's strengths lie in her clarity, thoroughness and willingness to expand from her case study to cover the entire century. Throughout, she pays appropriate attention to the social context within which adolescent medicine developed, so readers are taken not only through the politics of the profession but into the culture of early-twentieth-century anti-modernism and the critiques of post-Second World War suburbia. -- Matthew Hilton * Medical History *
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Harvard University Press Divided Families
Book SynopsisThis text argues that despite the upset children experience after parental separation, most adapt successfully provided the mother is secure both financially and psychologically, and conflict between parents is low. The usual casualty of divorce is a declining relationship between father and child.
£30.56
Princeton University Press Kingdom of Children Culture and Controversy in
Book SynopsisPlaces home schoolers within longer traditions of American social activism. This work reveals that home schooling is not a random collection of individuals but an elaborate social movement with its own celebrities, networks, and characteristic lifeways. It shows what happens when progressive ideals meet conventional politics.Trade Review"Stevens spent ten years interviewing home-schooling families, watching them teach, pitching tents at their summer camps, hanging out at their conferences, and reading their publications. He has written a careful, intelligent book"--Margaret Talbot, Atlantic Monthly "In the press and on television, home-schoolers are portrayed mainly as white Americans of strong Christian background, most of whom are right-wing fundamentalists. Stevens's study confirms this generic picture, yet his study helps us go beyond it... [T]he intellectual origins of home-schooling are surprisingly nonsectarian."--Howard Gardner, New York Review of Books "Kingdom of Children is about the grown-ups behind the not-so peaceful movement... As Stevens makes clear, those drawn to home schooling tend to be a stronger-willed, contentious lot, and removing them from the public school system doesn't make them less so."--Rebecca Jones, American School Board Journal "For anyone interested in home schooling, this is the book to read."--Choice "This book is extremely well written and thought provoking... Kingdom of Children will no doubt play an important role in the much-needed sociological dialogue surrounding home schooling."--Ed Collom, American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction 3 Chapter One: Inside Home Educatin 10 Chapter Two: From Parents to Teachers 30 Chapter Three: Natural Mothers, Godly Women 72 Chapter Four: Authority and Diversity 107 Chapter Five: Politics 143 Chapter Six: Nurturing the Expanded Self 178 Notes 199 Index 225
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Princeton University Press Hidden in Plain Sight
Book SynopsisTells the tragic story of children's rights in America. This title asks why the United States, alone among nations, rejects the most universally embraced human-rights document in history, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2009 APSA's Best Book Award, Human Rights Section "With this thoroughly annotated, well-written book, Woodhouse performs an admirable job in helping readers to understand the complicated and ambiguous issue of children's rights in the US. Documenting some of the most egregious examples of the abuse and neglect of children with stories both personal and universal, she leads readers down the historical trail of legislative and judicial decisions made on children's behalf, and suggests others ripe for the making."--J. C. Altman, Choice "This book is timely. Hidden in Plain Sight: The Tragedy of Children's Rights ... will serve as a guide for all professions involved with children. The author has provided a discussion of the elemental rights of children, using historical narratives to illustrate the presence and lack of rights afforded them... It is an important book and hopefully will result in definitive guidelines that will include needs-based and capacity-based standards that the legal, economic, and psychosocial professions can apply in determining the best interests of children."--Viola Mecke, PsychCRITIQUES "This is a substantive book from an academic perspective while maintaining a very readable dialogue. And for absolute certainty, wherever you stand or thought you stood on the issue of children's rights, once you have read this book, you will never look at a children's story the same again."--Elizabeth Falter, Nursing Administration Quarterly "[Woodhouse] provides a narrative balanced with historical examples, including Anne Frank and the children of Dred Scott, as well as contemporary examples, like children of illegal immigrants, to explain the need for a defined structure of children's rights in the United States. Recognizing the ways that America has failed its children, Woodhouse advocates for a much-needed perspective and commitment when it comes to thinking about how we treat our country's most vulnerable youth... As a founder and director of the Center on Children and Families at the University of Florida and the Chair in Family Law at the University of Florida Levin, Woodhouse is uniquely situated to write about advocating for children's rights."--Erika Asgiersson, Campus Progress.comTable of ContentsIllustrations ix Foreword by Ruth O'Brien xi Preface xv Introduction: Ain't I a Person? 1 Chapter 1: How to Think about Childhood 15 Chapter 2: How to Think about Children's Rights 29 Part 1: The Privacy Principle: Stories of Bondage and Belonging Chapter 3: Boys in Slavery and Servitude: Frederick Douglass 51 Chapter 4: Girls at the Intersection of Age, Race, and Gender: Dred Scott's Daughters 75 Chapter 5: Growing Up in State Custody: "Tony" and "John G." 93 Part 2: The Agency Principle: Stories of Voice and Participation Chapter 6: The Printer's Apprentice: Ben Franklin and Youth Speech 111 Chapter 7: Youth in the Civil Rights Movement: John Lewis and Sheyann Webb 133 Part 3: The Equality Principle: Stories of Equal Opportunity Chapter 8: Old Maids and Little Women: Louisa Alcott and William Cather 159 Chapter 9: Breaking the Prison of Disability: Helen Keller and the Children of "Greenhaven" 180 Part 4: The Dignity Principle: Stories of Resistance and Resilience Chapter 10: Hide and Survive: Anne Frank and "Liu" 213 Chapter 11: Children at Work: Newsboys, Entrepreneurs, and "Evelyn" 234 Part 5: The Protection Principle: Stories of Guilt and Innocence Chapter 12: Telling the Scariest Secrets: Maya Angelou and "Jeannie" 259 Chapter 13: Age and the Idea of Innocence: "Amal" and Lionel Tate 279 CONCLUSION: The Future of Rights 304 Notes 315 Bibliography 337 Index 349
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Three Roads to Magdalena Coming of Age in a Southwest Borderland 18901990
Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart One: Cultures and Their Scripts1. Family and Religion2. Work and Play3. Pleasures and TransitionsPart Two: Boundaries and Border Crossings4. Points of Contact5. Anglos and Hispanics at School6. The Alamo Navajos at SchoolPart Three: Pasts and Promises7. Together and Apart8. Legacies and DeparturesAfterwordAcknowledgmentsNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Innocence Betrayed Paedophilia the Media and
Book Synopsis* A very readable and accessible book which is also rigorous and well researched. * Written by Jon Silverman (BBC Home Affairs Correspondent) and David Wilson (former prison governor) -- public figures with many contacts in the press and media.Trade Review"We fear it and loathe it but if we want to protect our children we must understand it too. The authors use formidable research to put paedophilia in context. This book is uncomfortable reading – but essential." John Humphrys, 'Today', BBC Radio 4 "No one has previously put the case so well for having an adult, rational debate about how we should respond to paedophilia. Nor have the counterproductive dangers of outing, naming and shaming with responses like Megan’s Law been so clearly discussed. A thoroughly researched and well argued study." Rod Morgan, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of the Probation Service for England and Wales "Silverman and Wilson manage to achieve what many of us aspire to - a book that will appeal both to a specialised and lay audience. In the emotionally charged atmosphere of considering the threat posed by predatory paedophiles ... it is important that we have a text that is thoughtful and measured, while also recognising the deep emotions that the topic raises among the populace. ...[T]his is a well-written book that can be recommended to the interested layperson ... while, for the specialist, it draws the threads together of the recent painful scenario where the News of the World has largely orchestrated the terms of the debate." The Howard Journal of Criminal JusticeTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. 1. A Short History Of Sex Offending. 2. Paedophiles. 3. Beyond Victimhood. 4. Dealing With Paedophiles Within The Penal System. 5. Protecting The Community. 6. Release. 7. Communities In Need Of ‘Community Notification'. 8. Named And Shamed. 9. 'Charlie's Angels' And How To Protect Our Children. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Becoming Sexual
Book SynopsisThe sexualization of girls has captured the attention of the media, advocacy groups and politicians in recent years. This prolific discourse sets alarm bells ringing: sexualization is said to lead to depression, promiscuity and compassion deficit disorder, and rob young girls of their childhood.Trade Review"A very welcome contribution to the tradition that challenges our too-easy acceptance of the translation of social fear into social fact."Times Higher Education"A unique and invaluable contribution to the field."Clare L. Bennett, University of Worcester"In this persuasive and eye-opening volume, R. Danielle Egan dissects the dominant accounts of the sexualization of girls to reveal deep-seated class and race anxieties that say more about adults' condition than those of young girls. A must-read for anyone interested in youth today."Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology and author of Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture "Why has the figure of the 'sexualized' girl become an object of intense concern, despite a striking lack of evidence to support the claims that are made about contemporary girlhood? Becoming Sexual goes to the heart of this curious development to explore why we are so compelled by 'sexualization' and what our obsession reveals about our culture. This is a politically important book that reveals what is at stake in the sexualization debate for feminism and for girls."Feona Attwood, Sheffield Hallam University "Becoming Sexual is a refreshing and critical engagement with the contemporary and historical logics at work in recent figurations of the 'sexualized' girl-child and a compulsory read for anyone grappling with the wider cultural politics of girls, childhood and sexuality. With the ever-increasing onslaught of popular and pseudo-scientific texts bemoaning the 'sexualization of girls', Becoming Sexual is a MUST READ!"Emma Renold, Cardiff UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vi Introduction: Sexualization as a Social Problem 1 1 What is Sexualization? 19 2 (Hetero)Sexualization, Pathological Femininity, and Hope for the Future 49 3 Sexualized Tastes, Middle-Class Fantasies, and Fears of Class Contagion 78 4 Unmanageable Bodies, Adult Disgust, and the Demand for Innocence 107 Conclusion: Refl exive Reticence, Affective Response, and the Social Construction of Sexual Problems 129 Notes 139 References 155 Index 182
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John Wiley & Sons Our Rural Selves Memory and the Visual in
Book SynopsisPainting a picture of childhood and memory in rural Canada.Trade Review"Offering a refreshingly innovative understanding of identity as produced and negotiated, Our Rural Selves convincingly exemplifies that we cannot understand our positions in the social, inclusive world without understanding our social connectedness as a shifting, dynamic relational of self with self, self with others and self as a possible, collective future." Daisy Pillay, University of KwaZulu-Natal"Our Rural Selves provides an intriguing, multi-faceted perspective on the contemporary face of rural Canada, an important constituency that is often overlooked." Margaret Mackey, University of Alberta
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University of British Columbia Press Protecting Aboriginal Children
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to document emerging practice in Aboriginal communities and describe child protection practice simultaneously from the point of view of the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal social worker.Trade ReviewThis little volume fares quite well as a single message book, that message being that historically, child and family practice in Aboriginal communities in British Columbia has been a dismal failure. -- John W. Friesen, University of Calgary * Canadian Ethnic Studies, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2006 *Trial lawyers specializing in aboriginal law will find this text to be the first of its kind describing child protection proceedings from the standpoint of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal social workers. The 1960s practice of mass removal of Native children from their homes resulted in roughly half of all children in care being from Aboriginal families. The author sets out creative and humane alternatives to the past processes. * The Barrister, No. 79 *Table of ContentsForeword / ixAcknowledgments / xiii1 Introduction2 The Historical Context3 The British Columbia Context4 A Description of Practice5 The Sociopolitical Practice Context6 Organizational Context of Practice7 The Community Context8 Visions, Explanations, and Knowledge for Practice9 Choices for Change10 Social Representations of Child Protection PracticeAppendices1 Note on the Theoretical Framework2 Note on MethodologyReferencesIndex
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University of British Columbia Press People Politics and Child Welfare in British
Book SynopsisContributors contemplate the evolution of child protection policy and practice in BC, addressing political influences on structural arrangements, cultural traditions of First Nations clients, and establishing community control over services.Table of ContentsForeword / Deryck ThomsonIntroduction: People, Politics, and Child Welfare / Brian Wharf1 Rethinking Child Welfare Reform in British Columbia, 1900-60 / Marilyn Callahan and Christopher Walmsley2 Trends in Child Welfare: What Do the Data Show? / Leslie T. Foster3 The Community Resource Board Experience / Brian Wharf4 Child Welfare in the 1980s: A Time of Turbulence and Change / Sandra Scarth and Richard Sullivan5 Witnessing Wild Woman: Resistance and Resilience in Aboriginal Child Welfare / Maggie Kovachs, Robina Thomas, Monty Montgomery, Jacquie Green, and Leslie Brown6 The Community Advocate Minister: Attempting Major Changes / Riley Hern and John Cossom7 Thomas Gove: A Commission of Inquiry Puts Children First and Proposes Community Governance and Integration of Services / Andrew Armitage and Elaine Murray8 Great Expectations and Unintended Consequences: Risk Assessment in Child Welfare in British Columbia / Marilyn Callahan and Karen Swift9 Back to the Future: Toward Community Governance / Leslie T. Foster10 Views from Other Provinces / Brad McKenzie, Sally Palmer, and Wanda Thomas Barnard11 The Case for a Comprehensive Vision for Child Welfare / Brian Wharf12 From Child Protection to Safeguarding: The English Context / Tony Morrison13 Final Thoughts / Brian WharfAppendix 1: Key Events in British Columbia Child Welfare, 1863 to May 2006Appendix 2: Key Government Decision Makers in British Columbia Child Welfare, 1947 to May 2006Appendix 3: Delegated Aboriginal Child and Family Service Agencies’ Status, May 2006List of ContributorsIndex
£65.25
University of British Columbia Press Small Bites
Book SynopsisSmall Bites travels the globe to show how biology and culture influence how children eat, and how child nutrition can be made more equitable and sustainable.Table of ContentsList of Figures and TablesIntroduction1 Baby Steps: Prenatal, Infant, and Young Child Feeding2 Biocultural Variation in Child Feeding and Eating3 Children’s Food in the Age of the Industrial Diet4 It Takes a Village: School Feeding Programs5 Global Malnutrition and Children’s Food (In)Security6 Childhood Obesity: A Twenty-First Century Nutritional Dilemma7 New Directions in Children’s Food and NutritionReferences; Notes; Index
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Urban Sanctuaries
Book SynopsisA comprehensive look at inner-city youth programs. Urban Sanctuaries analyzes the strategies of community leaders and organizations. The author describes how these leaders create and sustain youth programs in spite of enormous challenges.Trade Review"This book is a beam of light in the dark world of inner-city youth, and as beams of light often do, it shows the way." --from the foreword by John W. Gardner, former secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and founder of Common Cause "Urban Sanctuaries is a well-written, absorbing account of an endangered species, our inner-city youth, and of the adults who work hard to save them. This book is must reading for anyone who professes to care about the future of today's youth." --Mary Rose Main, national executive director, Girl Scouts of the United States of America "Urban Sanctuaries builds a compelling and moving case for the effectiveness of community-based programs for inner-city adolescents." --Paul Simon, U.S. Senator "In contrast to policy reports that detail statistics on youth problems and big system responses, this book immerses us in the rich reality of young people's hopes and challenges and shows us the power of seemingly modest programs to support the youth they believe in." --Karen Johnson Pittman, director, AED Center for Youth Development and Policy ResearchTable of Contents1. Neighborhood Organizations: Places of Hope in the Inner City. 2. The Hopefuls: Six Teens with a Bright Future. 3. The Wizards: Three Homegrown Community Leaders. 4. More Wizards: Three Outsiders Who Have Earned Respect. 5. What Matters Most? Common Traits of Wizards and Their Organizations. 6. Making Vision a Reality: The People Who Make it Work. 7. Building the Program's Family. 8. Volunteers: A Mixed Blessing. 9. Finding Resources: The Struggle to Fund Neighborhood Programs. 10. Sustaining Places of Hope: How Three Programs Negotiate Support in One City. 11. Keeping Hope Alive: An Appeal for Action.
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MB - Cornell University Press Children Bound to Labor The Pauper Apprentice
Book SynopsisThe history of early America cannot be told without considering unfree labor. At the center of this history are African and Native American adults forced into slavery; the children born to these unfree persons usually inherited their parents' status...Trade ReviewRuth Wallis Herndon and John E. Murray have gathered together twelve fine essays in this volume that provides welcome insight into the varied apprenticeship practices on display in North America from the late seventeenth century through the mid nineteenth. Children Bound to Labor demonstrates that apprenticeship was a pervasive and remarkably flexible institution that could be adapted to fit divergent political and economic contexts in early America. * Georgia Historical Quarterly *This excellent collection brings together a dozen essays that explore the history and significance of pauper apprenticeship (also known as orphan apprenticeship or binding out). Most of the essays are based on detailed research in the records and circumstances of particular communities; they focus on the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and range across North America, mainly in the British colonies but with interesting essays on New Netherland and Montreal as well. Taken together, these essays do much to advance our knowledge of the institution, and they make a convincing cases for its importance to our understanding of early American culture and development, including the central issues of labor, poverty, ideas about child rearing, society, and the state, and the effects of economic and social changes. -- Helena M. Wall * Journal of Southern History *
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Cornell University Press Small Arms
Book SynopsisWhy do terrorist organizations use children to support their cause and carry out their activities? Small Arms uncovers the brutal truth behind the mobilization of children by terrorist groups. Mia Bloom and John Horgan show us the grim underbelly of society that allows and even encourages the use of children to conduct terrorist activities...Trade ReviewDrawing on a wide body of case studies, the authors examine the many ways child soldiers are drawn into their roles—which, in the end, usually turn out to be as cannon fodder.... Of interest to military planners as well as workers in the humanitarian aid/NGO sphere. * Kirkus Reviews *[Arabic language review] * Hafryat *The lack of universally generalizable policy recommendations may be off-putting for those looking for easy solutions, but if describing the phenomenon is the first step to understanding it, then this work is essential reading. * Choice *Small Arms: Children and Terrorism is an important, timely, and interdisciplinary work that offers new insight into the issue of children in conflict. * H-Net H-War *Small Arms is a must-read for policymakers and planners working on counterterrorism strategy. With so little existing political science scholarship in this arena, Bloom and Horgan earn the dubious distinction of providing the most comprehensive overview of children and terrorism. * Joint Forces Quarterly *Bloom and Horgan's Small Arms: Children and Terrorism is an engagingly written, conceptually coherent contribution to scholarship around the use of children by violent extremist organizations (VEOs), with special consideration given to how these practices contrast with the use of child soldiers by other armed groups. * Terrorism & Political Violence *Bloom and Horgan have done a masterful job of building their argument and demonstrating their concepts without lingering on the worst aspects of their subject. It belongs on the shelf of any individual interested in modern conflicts and should be of enormous utility in a wide variety of undergraduate courses. * H-Net *Bloom and Horgan offer a tour de force of the critical issue of children and terrorism. Their book is a must-read for anyone interested in getting the full and disturbing picture of contemporary terrorism. * PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS *Small Arms: Children and Terrorism addresses an important issue in terrorism literature—the use of children to carry out acts of terrorism worldwide. [The book] highlights a topic rapidly growing in prevalence around the world, and future military leaders must learn how to deal with this new pandemic problem. * The US Army War College Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. What Is a Child? 2. Child Soldiers versus Children in Terrorist Groups 3. Learning to Hate: Socialization and Cultural Influences 4. Pathways to Involvement: Coercion 5. Pathways to Involvement: Consensus and Cultures of Martyrdom 6. Experiences, Apprenticeships, and Careers in Terror 7. Leaving Terrorism Behind 8. An End or a New Beginning? Notes Index
£20.89
Cornell University Press Overcoming the Odds High Risk Children from
Book SynopsisOvercoming the Odds looks closely at the lives of an ethnically diverse group of 505 men and women who were born in 1955 on the Hawaiian island of Kauai and who have been monitored from the prenatal period through early adulthood by psychologists...Trade ReviewOvercoming the Odds is of interest to researchers, as it documents the ways in which the study itself has grown over time. It is also of great value to educators, counselors, and administrators who take interest in the ways that the subjects of this study have overcome difficulties as children to lead healthy and productive adult lives. -- K. G. * Harvard Educational Review *This fine account of the general course of the lives of high risk subjects who made adequate social adaptations tells the factors that enabled them to win a battle that so many in their socioeconomic strata lose. -- Sylvia Brody * The Psychoanalytical Quarterly *
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University of Toronto Press Ethical Issues in CommunityBased Research with
Book SynopsisEfforts to apply ethical guidelines and regulations to vulnerable populations are often problematic. Consequently, health and social scientists sometimes shy away from the challenges of research, particularly when it means addressing value-laden social problems such as sexuality, drugs, and racism. Ethical Issues in Community-Based Research with Children and Youth is a collection of essays that describe the uniqueness of community-based research, outlining several of the ethical concerns that it engenders. The contributors examine such issues as the scope of informed consent to multiple stakeholders, determining competence to give consent in marginalized populations, and managing dual roles as participant researchers. The collection suggests that a more collaborative, ongoing, and discursive approach is needed by researchers and by ethical review boards to ensure that research on sensitive social problems with high risk populations is supported and also conducted with a clTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Contributors Part I: The Ecology of Informed Consent in Vulnerable Child and Youth Populations and First Nations * Community-Based Research with Vulnerable Populations: Challenges for Ethics and Research Guidelines BONNIE LEADBEATER, TED RIECKEN, CECILIA BENOIT, ELIZABETH BANISTER, CONRAD BRUNK, and KATHLEEN GLASS * Through the Community Looking Glass: Participant Consultation for Adolescent Risk Research 22 CELIA FISHER and JESSICA MASTY * At the Edge of Consent: Participatory Research with Student Filmmakers TED RIECKEN and TERESA STRONG-WILSON Part II: Longitudinal Samples: Protecting Privacy and Maintaining Consent * A Youth Population Health Survey MIKAEL JANSSON, WAYNE MITIC, TRACEY HULTEN, and MANDEEP DHAMI * The Ethics of Peeking behind the Fence: Issues Related to Studying Children's Aggression and Victimization AMY YUILE, DEBRA PEPLER, WENDY CRAIG, and JENNIFER CONNOLLY Part III: Weighing Benefits and Preventing Harms * The Ecstasy and the Agony of Collecting Sociometric Data in Public School Classrooms: Challenges, Community Concerns, and Pragmatic Solutions MARION K. UNDERWOOD, LARA MAYEUX, SCOTT RISSER, and BRIDGETTE HARPER * Ivory Tower Ethics: Potential Conflict between Community Organizations and Agents of the Tri-council LORRIE SIPPOLA Part IV: The Special Case of Research with Groups * Youth on the Margins: Qualitative Research with Adolescent Groups ANNE MARSHALL and BLYTHE SHEPARD * Walking a Fine Line: Negotiating Dual Roles in a Study with Adolescent Girls ELIZABETH BANISTER and KIM DALY Part V: Child Protection Issues in Research with Vulnerable Children and Youth * Respect and Protect? Conducting Community-Academic Research with Street-Involved Youth MIKAEL JANSSON and CECILIA BENOIT * Conducting Research in Child Maltreatment: Problems and Prospects CHRISTINE WALSH and HARRIET MACMILLAN * The Study of Suicidality among Children and Youth: Preliminary Recommendations and Best Practices TRACY VAILLANCOURT and VIOLETTA IGNESKI Part VI: Summary and Recommendations for Ethical Guidelines, Research, and Training * Unique Roles, Unique Challenges: Graduate Students' Involvement in Community-Academic Research JOSH SLATKOFF, RACHEL PHILLIPS, SARAH CORRIN, TAMARA ROZECK-ALLEN, and TERESA STRONG-WILSON * Stepping into Community-Based Research: Preparing Students to Meet New Ethics and Professional Challenges MARLENE MORETTI, BONNIE LEADBEATER, and ANNE MARSHALL * Including Vulnerable Populations in Community-Based Research: New Directions for Ethics Guidelines and Ethics Research BONNIE LEADBEATER and KATHLEEN GLASS
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University of Toronto Press Being a Parent
Book SynopsisDuring his thirty years with the Institute of Child Study of the University of Toronto the late Dr. Karl S. Bernhardt wrote hundreds of articles and gave hundreds of talks to parents on the best way to bring up children. His philosophy is based on a belief in the worth of the individual. He believed that the goal of child-rearing should be to develop a feeling of security in the individual, and the best way to develop this sense of security is with firm and consistent discipline.This volume brings together some of Dr. Bernhardt’s articles. It examines all aspects of child-rearing: the importance of the home and the family, and the influence on the child’s development exerted by both the home and the school. He describes the stages of child development, discipline problems, character education, the use of leisure time and the development of mental health.Written in a style which is simple and direct, this book is a guide for family living with a timely messa
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University of Toronto Press Who Cares
Book SynopsisBy focusing on childcare and systematically comparing national experiences in Belgium, France, Italy, Sweden, and the European Union, Who Cares? provides detailed information on recent social policies and a clear perspective on welfare state redesign. Many countries have now designed childcare policies to reconcile family and work. Some encourage parents to provide their own childcare by granting parental leave; others encourage parents to stay at work by supporting childcare services. Using the case of childcare policy, the contributors to this volume examine how public policy choices over the last three decades have been fashioned by specific understandings of the gendered division of labour.The authors of the country studies analyse specific childcare strategies and place them within the larger context of state approaches to women's roles. They argue that an examination of the direction and the form of social spending, in this period when such spending is under at
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University of Toronto Press Childrens Rights
Book SynopsisThe United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was incorporated into international law in 1989. Since its adoption, it has been ratified by nearly all member nations. An outline of the basic rights of all persons under the age of 18, the Convention has various implications and its importance cannot be contested. This collection focuses on children's rights as defined by the U.N. Convention, and their relevance in both national and international contexts.The contributors discuss the Convention from different disciplinary perspectives, but are united in the belief that it is a tool to be utilized and contextualized by individuals, institutions, and communities. If there is a single conviction to be found throughout Children's Rights it is that the rights of the child are far too important to be left to states alone to provide and protect. To paint a detailed picture of the subject as a whole, the volume looks at situations in which the basic rights of childre
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University of Nebraska Press Seen and Heard in Mexico Children and
Book SynopsisTrade Review“[Seen and Heard in Mexico] skillfully weaves together a variety of complex and significant threads while keeping at its center the important topic of the construction of childhood as a central component of postrevolutionary citizenship and nationalism.”—John Lear, professor of history at the University of Puget Sound and author of Workers, Neighbors, and Citizens: The Revolution in Mexico City Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Seen and Heard in Revolutionary Mexico1. Constructing Citizens: Adult-Produced Science, Space, Symbolism, and Rhetoric for the Revolutionary Child2. Pulgarcito and Popocatépetl: Children’s Art Curriculum and the Creation of a National Aesthetic3. A Community of Invisible Little Friends: Technology and Power in Children’s Radio Programs4. Comino vence al Diablo and Other Terrifying Episodes: Teatro Guiñol’s Itinerant Puppet Theater5. Hacer Patria through Peer Education: Literacy, Alcohol, and the Proletarian Child6. Hermanitos de la Raza: Civic Organizations and International DiplomacyConclusion: Exceptional and Everyday CitizensNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press The Camp Fire Girls
Book SynopsisAs the twentieth century dawned, progressive educators established a national organization for adolescent girls to combat what they believed to be a crisis of girls’ education. A corollary to the Boy Scouts of America, founded just a few years earlier, the Camp Fire Girls became America’s first and, for two decades, most popular girls’ organization. Based on Protestant middle-class ideals—a regulatory model that reinforced hygiene, habit formation, hard work, and the idea that women related to the nation through service—the Camp Fire Girls invented new concepts of American girlhood by inviting disabled girls, Black girls, immigrants, and Native Americans to join. Though this often meant a false sense of cultural universality, in the girls’ own hands membership was often profoundly empowering and provided marginalized girls spaces to explore the meaning of their own cultures in relation to changes taking place in twentieth-century America.Trade Review"Helgren's book provides an excellent model for study of youth organizations over time."—Elizabeth Tucker, Journal of Folkore Research Reviews"The Camp Fire Girls is truly a pleasure to read. From excellent analysis to captivating writing, Helgren's addition to the scholarship on youth organizations, girlhood, and outdoor education and programming is invaluable. Accessible to both the academy and the general population, The Camp Fire Girls is a fantastic piece of scholarship that succeeds in a multitude of ways and is a significant contribution to the field."—Montana Chandler, H-Environment“Jennifer Helgren provides a rich narrative about the Camp Fire Girls, a chapter of twentieth-century American youth culture that has been largely overlooked by historians. This is an important study of an organization that often found itself betwixt and between—empowering diverse modern girlhoods while promoting eclectically conservative visions of feminism.”—Susan A. Miller, author of Growing Girls: The Natural Origins of Girls’ Organizations in America“A fascinating book that grapples with the construction of American girlhood during the twentieth century. Captivating and multilayered. . . . The book is a model for how to write an organizational history that tells a far larger and more important story than that of a single organization.”—Sara Fieldston, author of Raising the World: Child Welfare in the American Century“By resisting the impulse to regard girls’ organizations as mere tools of gender indoctrination or middle-class indulgences, Jennifer Helgren’s examination of Camp Fire Girls makes a compelling case for the importance of revisiting a so-called familiar or known topic. Its meticulous research and stellar use of archives will serve as an example for undergraduates, graduate students, and her colleagues about what is possible in the history of childhood and youth. Helgren’s book will buttress the exciting array of new works in the history of girls and girlhood in the United States.”—Marcia Chatelain, author of South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great MigrationTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Camp Fire Girls Confront a Crisis in American Girlhood 1. “Preparing for Sex Equality”: Gender Ideals and the Founding Years 2. “Wohelo Maidens” and “Gypsy Trails”: Racial Mimicry and Camp Fire’s Picturesque Girl Citizen 3. “All Prejudices Seem to Disappear”: Race, Class, and Immigration in the Camp Fire Girls 4. “There Are Lots of Other Camp Fire Things We Can Do”: Disability, Disease, and Inclusion in the Camp Fire Girls 5. “Worship God”: The Camp Fire Girls, Antifascism, and Religion in the 1940s and 1950s 6. Being a “Homemaker—Plus”: Gender and the Spiritual Values of the Home 7. "Prejudices May Be Prevented": Race, Tolerance, and Democracy in the 1940s and 1950s 8. “The War on Poverty Is Being Waged by Camp Fire Girls”: The Metropolitan Critical Areas Project 9. “It’s a New Day”: Camp Fire’s Reckoning and Restructuring in the 1970s Epilogue: An All-Gender Organization for the Twenty-First Century Notes Bibliography Index
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Stanford University Press Iconoclasm As Childs Play
Book SynopsisTaking its impetus from remarkable fact that holy things were given to children as toys in the early modern period as a way of destroying their power, this book rethinks the meaning of both iconoclasm and child's play then and now.Trade Review"The face of our play has rarely looked so complex, so beautifully strange, as in Joe Moshenska's virtuosic study. With learning and wit, he probes play's power to make and unmake human thought, challenging any too-simple images of childish things." -- Kenneth Gross * University of Rochester *"This profoundly learned and beautifully written book is the best study of play since Huizinga's Homo Ludens and even surpasses that landmark work. Endlessly supple yet always sharp, it grows out of one historical epoch to range far afield, from antiquity to our contemporary moment." -- Gordon Teskey * Harvard University *"Analyzing the complex processes by which iconoclasts tactically repurposed holy relics as mere baubles, Moshenska reveals the surprisingly urgent cultural work accomplished by purportedly childish things. This startlingly original and refreshingly multidisciplinary book will change the way we look at toys, children, and religious images." -- Michael Schoenfeldt * University of Michigan *"[An] excellent and highly thoughtful book....If Moshenska lets some spirit of play animate his own scholarly investigations into such ultimately unfathomable things, he also shows how mysterious, open-ended, adventurous, and serious such play can be." -- Rachel Eisendrath * Modern Philology *"[An] extraordinary monograph....Iconoclasm as Child's Play is a scholarly, generous and generative book, and with it Moshenska has crafted a rich and suggestive narrative that demands much more of its readers than the kind of scholarly 'book-breaking' to which we have become habituated—and rewards that much more in turn." -- Stephanie Pope * H-Soz-Kult *"Iconoclasm as Child's Play is a rich interdisciplinary exploration of iconoclasm that will reward specialists in the histories and theologies of the Reformation and early modern Catholicism, the sociological and anthropological studies of religion and play, theological aesthetics, and the field of childhood studies. Moshenska...engages multiple disciplines, historic periods, and cultural contexts bringing them into a lively, and one might say, playful, exchange that is mutually disruptive and illuminating....captivating from the opening pages of the preface." -- Mary M. Doyle Roche * Horizons *"Although Moshenska's rhetorical method is unorthodox, it is brilliantly effective and true to its subject. The book is instructive without feeling instructive. Upon final reflection, the book could perhaps best be described as philosophical artwork." -- Craig Evan Anderson * Reading Religion *"A highly original perspective that will be welcomed by scholars of play and religion alike." -- Alan Levinovitz * The Journal of Religion *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsPreface: Preface chapter abstractThe preface begins with a sermon by Roger Edgeworth, delivered in the West of England in the 1530s, that describes children playing with objects removed from monasteries. The children are interrupted by their parents, who insist that these objects be denounced as "idols." Drawing on discussions from art history and political theory, it suggests that this scene is emblematic of the way in which the closed world of child's play seems both to demand and to resist interpretation. It distinguishes the delicate interpretative balance of the scene from some more recent attempts to see play either as entirely open and free or as entirely closed and predetermined, and sketches out the overall trajectory of the book. Introduction: Introduction chapter abstractThe introduction traces the wider historical and theoretical narratives in which iconoclasm and child's play have played prominent—but typically opposed—roles. It begins with Baudelaire's association of parents who deny toys to their children with Protestantism, and shows that this is symptomatic of a widely postulated opposition between play and the Reformation, linked to the identification of violently iconoclastic disenchantment as the essence of modernity. It then explores the roles that iconoclasm and play assumed in the emergence of modern aesthetics from Schiller to Gadamer, and the prominence of toys in modern accounts of materiality. These discussions set up the larger narratives of iconoclasm and play against which the texture of iconoclastic child's play itself is tested in the chapters that follow. 1Trifle chapter abstractThis chapter begins with lists compiled in Lincolnshire in the 1550s. These lists show that objects including pyxes—containers for the Eucharist—were given to children as playthings. The chapter links this practice to the widespread discourse that sought to demean traditional religion as a mere trifling with inane and worthless things, but it argues that the practice of iconoclastic child's play differs from this polemic in that the object actually lingers as a potential locus for newly emerging meanings. This possibility is linked to the wider complexities surrounding the status of trifles and inanities in the history of Christian thought and its consistent inversions of value, as well as to the self-reflexive interrogation of the status of trifles in the writings of Thomas More. 2Doll chapter abstractThis chapter opens with a father in Cologne in the 1590s who snapped the arms from a crucifix and gave it to his children as a toy. Returning to the sermon by Edgeworth discussed in the preface, the chapter considers this broken object as what Edgeworth calls an "idoll"—a hybridization of doll and idoll. This possibility is linked to the wider presence of "holy dolls" in medieval Christianity, but ultimately the doll is explored not as a stable and readily identifiable category but as a way of conceiving of ambiguous objects that may be more or less human at different moments and subjected alternatingly to violence and care. The implications of this possibility are explored in relation to a medieval Christ child, a broken crucifix, and a contemporary representation of a shattered doll. 3Puppet chapter abstractThis chapter opens with a movable image of a dove, representing the Holy Spirit, that was made into a plaything in sixteenth century Germany. It relates this specific object to a wider range of articulated and jointed figures involved in late medieval piety that were often attacked as empty puppets by reformers. It uses these objects to think not about puppets per se but rather about the jointedness or constitutive brokenness of holy things more broadly, particularly relics poised between the sacred and the disgusting. These objects are related to the unstable place of playfulness and the material in Erasmus's writings, and to the wider place of creative breaking and the disgusting in modern art. 4Fetish chapter abstractThis chapter opens with an ambiguous set of objects collected by a Dutch woman named Margrieta van Varick and described as "Indian Babies," possibly brought with her from the Dutch East Indies to New England, and relates them to the practice of iconoclastic child's play in Malaysia. It repositions iconoclastic child's play in a fraught colonial context and asks how the play of other cultures is to be interpreted. Beginning with ethnographic and psychoanalytic discussions of child's play by Lévi-Strauss, Winnicott, and others, it then moves to consider the category of the fetish as one that has long been intertwined with the status of children and their playing. It uses the contested status of this category—as an object both replete with, and devoid of, meaning—to reconsider the fetish as plaything both in sixteenth-century Guinea and in Adorno's writing on artworks and children's games. 5Play chapter abstractThis chapter opens with a set of medieval wooden statues in Audley End House in Essex that survived in part because they spent a period being used by children as toys. It considers the uneven trajectories through which these objects have passed—existing at different points as holy things, playthings, and art-things—to consider the wider temporal narratives into which play (and especially the playing of children) is often folded. It considers the way in which educative and habituating schemes from Plato to Renaissance figures such as Thomas Elyot and Montaigne involve the interpretation of play as a linear process of habituation, but it argues that these narratives involve a defensive simplification of the way in which play can in fact unfold in and through time, an attempt to limit and tame its meanings. 6Mask chapter abstractThis chapter begins with a wooden doll from the seventeenth century that is juxtaposed with the statues from Audley End considered in the previous chapter on the basis of their equally fixed, impassive visages. This feature is used to consider the way in which children, especially when at play, have been seen as troublingly masked, inscrutable, alien beings. It discusses accounts from the sixteenth century, notably John Harington's, that recognize in play periods of vacant, blank, neutral time. It then proceeds to an extended reading of Bruegel's painting Children's Games, and especially a consideration of the reading of this work by the Nazi art historian Hans Sedlmayr. This painting, and Sedlmayr's remarkable and deeply disquieting account, are seen as encapsulating the ways in which child's play's resistance to interpretation can provoke fear and horror—a possibility linked to the periodic association of children with witchcraft and demonic possession. Conclusion: Toy chapter abstractThe conclusion returns to the larger narratives into which play has often been folded in order to reconsider them in relation to the complexities of iconoclastic child's play. It suggests that neat temporalities in which play and seriousness contrast and alternate with one another need to be replaced with trajectories that have room for sudden alteration and reversal. Drawing in part from the writings of Hans Blumenberg, Bruno Latour, Michel Serres, Siegfried Kracauer, and Igor Kopytoff, it suggests that we think of objects (including artworks) in terms of their "toy potential"—the perennial possibility that an object might both come to be, and cease to be, a plaything. The implications of this possibility are illustrated via a reading of an episode from Spenser's Faerie Queene in which a malevolent allegorical dragon is startlingly transformed into a child's plaything.
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Louisiana State University Press Central Parks AdventureStyle Playgrounds
Book SynopsisIn New York's Central Park, some of the playgrounds constructed as part of the midcentury experimental “playground revolution” still remain. Marie Warsh tells the history of these playscapes built in the 1960s and ‘70s, exploring their connections to the art, recreational design, urbanism, and child-development theories of the period.
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Teachers College Press Embracing Risky Play at School
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Teachers College Press Using Picture Books to Promote Empathy Belonging and Social Justice in PreK and Kindergarten
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Teachers College Press Embracing Risky Play at School
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Teachers College Press Using Schema Play Theory to Advocate for Free Play in Early Childhood
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Teachers College Press Culturally Responsive Teaching for Infants and
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University of Pennsylvania Press Reading Children
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean for a child to be a reader and how did American culture come to place such a high value on this identity? Reading Children offers a history of the relationship between children and books in Anglo-American modernity, exploring long-lived but now forgotten early children''s literature, discredited yet highly influential pedagogical practices, the property lessons inherent in children''s book ownership, and the emergence of childhood itself as a literary property.The nursery and schoolroom version of the social contract, Crain argues, underwrote children''s entry not only into reading and writing but also into a world of commodity and property relations. Increasingly positioned as an indispensable form of cultural capital by the end of the eighteenth century, literacy became both the means and the symbol of children''s newly recognized self-possession and autonomy. At the same time, as children''s legal and economic status was changing, childhood emerged Trade Review"Reading Children is capacious but rigorous, bringing entirely fresh ways of thinking about what may have seemed like well-trodden material. Crain's prose is precise, clear, and quite often entertaining, and her research is extraordinary." * Modern Philology *"The strengths of this lavishly illustrated study, which includes thirty-five color plates and forty-five black-and-white illustrations, are the evocative, perceptive, and compelling discussions of the relationship between children's reading and property. . . . Crain braids together close analyses of texts, artifacts, and significant contemporary ideas to provide a multidimensional historical account of children's reading that contextualizes the idealized representation that we have come to associate with childhood." * Children's Literature Association Quarterly *"Crain's study makes significant contributions to studies of childhood reading practices and spaces. Her examination of reading in controlled and regulated schoolroom environments as well as private, familial environments adds to current understandings of how public and private scenes of reading and the material culture of books and the spaces in which to read books shape and define childhood." * HIstory of Education Quarterly *"[A] fascinating, wide-ranging study of the ways in which the figure of the child reader-in particular, the image of a child reading his or her own book-has been intertwined in broader cultural narratives about selfhood, memory, commodity ownership, and economic and cultural capital." * Reception *"Patricia Crain has long been one of the handful of scholars whose work I have found truly transformative, changing my sense of the kinds of questions one could ask and of the strategies one might develop for answering them. Reading Children is capacious, precise, and at times breathtakingly original in its vision and methods." * Karen Sánchez-Eppler, Amherst College *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Children and Books Chapter 1. Literacy, Commodities, and Cultural Capital: The Case of Goody Two-Shoes Chapter 2. The Literary Property of Childhood: The Case of the "Babes in the Wood" Chapter 3. Colonizing Childhood, Placing Cherokee Children Chapter 4. "Selling a Boy": Race, Class, and the Literacy Economy of Childhood Chapter 5. Children in the Margins Chapter 6. Raising "Master James": The Medial Child and Phantasms of Reading Coda. Bedtime Stories Appendix. "The Children in the Wood" Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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Rutgers University Press At Play in Belfast Childrens Folklore and
Book SynopsisWriting about children on the school playgrounds of working-class Belfast, Northern Ireland, Donna M. Lanclos uses their own words to show how they shape their social identities. She explores their ideas about gender, family, adult-child interactions, and Protestant/Catholic tensions.Trade ReviewWe are so used to hearing about the terrible effects upon children of ongoing tragedies like Northern IrelandÆs æTroublesÆ that it revives the readerÆs spirit to see someone like Lanclos actually spend time with children and find in their folklore evidence of the childrenÆs resilience. The children in these pages use their folklore to take some power in their circumstances, demonstrating that they are not passive victims of violence and sectarianism. -- Jay Mechling * American studies, University of California, Davis *Table of ContentsIntroduction A day in the life Rudeness and defining the line between child and adult Masculinity and femininity on the playground Exploring the Protestant/Catholic divide Conclusion
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John Wiley & Sons Growing Girls The Natural Origins of Girls
Book SynopsisIn the early years of the twentieth century, Americans began to recognize adolescence as a developmental phase distinct from both childhood and adulthood. This title explores the girls' organizations that sprang up in the first half of the twentieth century from a socio-historical perspective.Trade ReviewSusan A. Miller's well-written and meticulously researched interdisciplinary study of scouting summer camps for girls draws upon the history of science and the body to examine a prominent cultural site of girlhood socialization. Miller's imaginative examination of evidence from the ground up (nature and crafts) as well as from the top down (ideas/ideals) sheds new light on our understanding of girls' scouting organizations and their impact on the shaping of American girlhood. -- Miriam Forman-Brunell * professor of history, University of Missouri-Kansas City *Table of ContentsIntroduction: What is the matter with Jane? Fashioning girls' identity Mobilizing girl soldiers The landscape of camp Naturecraft Homecraft Healthcraft Epilogue: A tale of two girls
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Rutgers University Press Pleasures and Perils Girls Sexuality in a
Book Synopsis Pleasures and Perils follows a group of young girls living on Nevis, an island society in the Eastern Caribbean. In this provocative ethnography, Debra Curtis examines their sexuality in gripping detail: why do Nevisian girls engage in sexual activity at such young ages? Where is the line between coercion and consent? How does a desire for wealth affect a girl''s sexual practices? Curtis shows that girls are often caught between conflicting discourses of Christian teachings about chastity, public health cautions about safe sex, and media enticements about consumer delights. Sexuality''s contradictions are exposed: power and powerless¡ness, self-determination and cultural control, violence and pleasure. Pleasures and Perils illuminates the methodological and ethical issues anthropologists face when they conduct research on sex, especially among girls. The sexually explicit narratives conveyed in this book challenge not only the reader''s own thoughts onTrade Review"Pleasures and Perils is an accessible yet theoretically astute introduction to theories of sexual subjectivity, discourse, and mediation. It is also a compellingly written story about an island in transition and about the girls who are coming to adulthood as these shifts take place." * New West Indian Guide *"Pleasures and Perils is an accessible yet theoretically astute introduction to theories of sexual subjectivity, discourse, and mediation. It is also a compellingly written story about an island in transition and about the girls who are coming to adulthood as these shifts take place." * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Globalizing Nevis: Radical Shifts from Subsistence to Consumerism 3. Competing Discourses and Moralities at Play 4. Consuming Global Scripts: Media, Sex, and Desire 5. The State and Sexualities 6. Rethinking Sexual-Economic Exchange 7. Theorizing Sexual Pleasure 8. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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John Wiley & Sons Translating Childhoods Immigrant Youth Language and Culture Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
Book SynopsisDrawing from ethnographic data and research in immigrant communities, this study provides the definition of child labor by assessing children's roles as translators as part of a cost equation in an era of global restructuring and considers how sociocultural learning and development is shaped as a result of children's contributions as translators.Trade Review"Translating Childhoods should be required reading for educators and future teachers. It provides a refreshing and important view of children as active contributors to communities and society." -- Lucinda Pease-Alvarez * University of California, Santa Cruz *"This is one of the most important works on learning and development among immigrant children in the last decade. Orellana integrates a cognitive and developmental focus with deeply personal portraits that expand fundamentally our understanding of what counts as generative knowledge for academic learning." -- Carol D. Lee * Northwestern University, author of Culture, Literacy and Learning *"Translating Childhoods, an important and pathbreaking contribution to the new sociology of childhood, provides lucid analysis and vivid ethnographic portraits of children as powerful social actors engaged in the invisible work of language brokering at home, in schools and in public spaces across an array of institutional domains where their skills matter." -- Marjorie Harness Goodwin * UCLA *"Orellana paints a powerful portrait of the complicated lives of America's immigrant youth." * Language Arts *"I highly recommend Translating Childhoods for an array of courses in language and literacy. Despite the book's strong research base, it reads more like a novel." -- Elaine Rubinstein-Avila * Anthropology and Education Quarterly *"Orellana tracks immigrant children in Los Angeles, Chicago, and a Chicago suburb to explore the work children do translating for others. From the author's introspection, one once more appreciates that immigrant children are not the burden they are often portrayed." * Education Review *"Orellana tracks immigrant children in Los Angeles, Chicago, and a Chicago suburb to explore the work children do translating for others. From the author's introspection, one once more appreciates that immigrant children are not the burden they are often portrayed." * Education Review *"I highly recommend Translating Childhoods for an array of courses in language and literacy. Despite the book's strong research base, it reads more like a novel." -- Elaine Rubinstein-Avila * Anthropology and Education Quarterly *"Orellana paints a powerful portrait of the complicated lives of America's immigrant youth." * Language Arts *"Translating Childhoods is a deeply insightful analysis of the daily 'work' of immigrant children and its implications for their development—a superb contribution to the field!" -- Carola Sußrez-Orozco * author of Children of Immigration and Learning a New Land *"Translating Childhoods, an important and pathbreaking contribution to the new sociology of childhood, provides lucid analysis and vivid ethnographic portraits of children as powerful social actors engaged in the invisible work of language brokering at home, in schools and in public spaces across an array of institutional domains where their skills matter." -- Marjorie Harness Goodwin * UCLA *"Translating Childhoods should be required reading for educators and future teachers. It provides a refreshing and important view of children as active contributors to communities and society." -- Lucinda Pease-Alvarez * University of California, Santa Cruz *"This is one of the most important works on learning and development among immigrant children in the last decade. Orellana integrates a cognitive and developmental focus with deeply personal portraits that expand fundamentally our understanding of what counts as generative knowledge for academic learning." -- Carol D. Lee * Northwestern University, author of Culture, Literacy and Learning *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Translating FramesLandscapes of Childhood Home Work Public Para-Phrasing Transculturations Transformations Translating Childhoods Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Notes Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Contesting Childhood Autobiography Trauma and
Book SynopsisThe late 1990s and early 2000s witnessed a surge in the publication and popularity of autobiographical writings about childhood. Linking literary and cultural studies, Drawing on trauma and memory studies and theories of authorship and readership, this title offers commentary on the triumphs, trials, and tribulations that have shaped this genre.Trade Review"Douglas offers a rich trove of insights into how versions of childhood are sold to fulfill a range of political purposes, both progressive and regressive, and how speaking through the voice of the traumatized child makes it difficult to tell the difference." * Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly *"Douglas offers a rich trove of insights into how versions of childhood are sold to fulfill a range of political purposes, both progressive and regressive, and how speaking through the voice of the traumatized child makes it difficult to tell the difference." * Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 Creating Childhood Chapter 2 Consuming Childhood Chapter 3 Authoring Childhood Chapter 4 Scripts for Remembering Chapter 5 Scripts for Remembering Chapter 6 Ethics Chapter 7 The Ethics of Reading Conclusion Writing Childhood in the Twenty-First Century Notes Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Girlhood A Global History Rutger Series in
Book SynopsisGirlhood, interdisciplinary and global in source, scope, and methodology, examines the centrality of girlhood in shaping women's lives. Scholars study how age and gender, along with a multitude of other identities, work together to influence the historical experience.Trade Review"This volume presents fresh scholarship on the history of girls' cultures and will become an oft-cited, first important collection that helps define the burgeoning field of the history of children and youth." -- Jay Mechling * professor of American studies, University of California, Davis *"Provides the field of girl-centered research with new insights, the most important being that the notion of girlhood is not uniform and fixed, but diverse and dynamic." -- Helma Van Leirop * Tilburg University/Leiden University, IRSCL online review *Table of ContentsForeword / Miriam Forman-Brunell Acknowledgments Introduction / Jennifer Helgren / Colleen A. Vasconcellos Toward Political Agency for Girls: Mapping the Discourses of Girlhood Globally / Jackie Kirk / Claudia Mitchell / Jacqueline Reid-Walsh Part I Girls' Cultures and Identities American Jewish Girls and the Politics of Identity, 1860-1920 / Melissa R. Klapper Growing Up in Colonial Algeria: The Case of Assia Djebar / Christa Jones Immigrant Girls in Multicultural Amsterdam: Juggling Ambivalent Cultural Messages / Marion Den Uyl / Lenie Brouwer Feminist Girls, Lesbian Comrades: Performances of Critical Girlhood in Taiwan Pop Music / Fran Martin Part II The Politics of Girlhood Girlhood Memories and the Politics of Justice in Post-Rosas Argentina: The Restitution Suit of Olalla Alvarez / Jesse Hingson "A Case of Peculiar and Unusual Interest": The Egg Inspectors Union, the AFL, and the British Ministry of Food Confront "Negro Girl" Egg Candlers / Jan Voogd "Life Is a Succession of Disappointments": A Soviet Girl Contends with the Stalinist Dictatorship / E. Thomas Ewing Fragilities and Failures, Promises and Patriotism: Elements of Second World War English and American Girlhood, 1939-1945 / Lisa L. Ossian Holy Girl Power Locally and Globally: The Marian Visions of Garabandal, Spain / Jessamy Harvey Rebels, Robots, and All-American Girls: The Ideological Use of Images of Girl Gymnasts during the Cold War / Ann Kordas Part III The Education of Girls Palestinian Girls and the British Missionary Enterprise, 1847-1948 / Nancy L. Stockdale "The Right Kind of Ambition": Discourses of Femininity at the Huguenot Seminary and College, 1895-1910 / S. E. Duff Stolen Girlhood: Australia's Assimilation Policies and Aboriginal Girls / Christine Cheater Fathers, Daughters, and Institutions: Coming of Age in Mombasa's Colonial Schools / Corrie Decker Mothers of Warriors: Girls in a Youth Debate of Interwar Iraq / Peter Wien "Homemaker' Can Include the World": Female Citizenship and Internationalism in the Postwar Camp Fire Girls / Jennifer Helgren Part IV Girls to Women: Work, Marriage, and Sexuality From Chattel to "Breeding Wenches": Abolitionism, Girlhood, and Jamaican Slavery / Colleen A. Vasconcellos Girls, Labor, and Sex in Precolonial Egypt, 1850-1882 / Liat Kozma Defiant Daughters and the Emancipation of Minors in Nineteenth-Century Mexico / Kathryn A. Sloan The Shifting Status of Middle-Class Malay Girlhood: From "Sisters" to "Sinners" in One Generation / Patricia Sloane-White Contributors Index
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Rutgers University Press Raising Your Kids Right Childrens Literature and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Few people are aware of the right's attempts to use children's literature ideologically to indoctrinate American youth. While this book will certainly be valuable to scholars of children's literature and education, those outside of academe should also sit up and take notice." -- Philip Nel * coeditor of Tales for Little Rebels *"Raising Your Kids Right is an eye-opening examination of how the contemporary conservative movement has deployed children's literature. Michelle Ann Abate adds a crucial dimension to the study of the conservative movement while simultaneously expanding the discussion about the intersections of children's literature and American politics." * Children's Literature Association Quarterly *"A timely and engaging study of the rise of conservative children's books published in the United States. It is a valuable study of the political nature of some of children's literature as it zeros in on a handful of high-profile conservative titles published since the 1990s." -- Jan Susina * Teachers College Record *"A brilliant study that marks a significant intervention in both the fields of political science and children's literature." * The Lion and the Unicorn *"The role of children's literature in laying the groundwork for future generations to embrace conservatism is worth exploring and understanding. Abate's book helps open that conversation, while leaving plenty of questions for future scholars to pursue." * Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth *Table of ContentsIntroduction. “In Adam’s Fall, We Sinned All”: The Conservative Tradition in U.S. Children’s Literature, Culture, and Politics1 “Give Me Some of That Old-Time Reading”: William Bennett’s The Book of Virtues and the Rise of Right-Leaning Literature for Young Readers2 “I Speak for the National Oak Flooring Manufacturers Association”: Truax, the Anti-Green Movement, and the Corporate Production of Children’s Literature3 Not Just Christianity, But the Christian Right: The Battle over Public Education and the American Sunday School Movement in the Left Behind Series for Kids4 Patriot Acts: Fighting the War on Terror via the Canon Wars in Lynne Cheney’s Picture Books5 Pundit Knows Best: The Self-Help Boom, Brand Marketing, and The O’Reilly Factor for Kids6 “One State, Two State, Red State, Blue State”: Bringing Partisan Politics to Picture Books in Katharine DeBrecht’s Help! Mom! SeriesConclusion. “The Gosh-Darnit, Doggone It, You-Betcha Wink Heard ’Round the World”: The 2008 Presidential Election, the State of the Conservative Movement, and the Future of Rightist Books for Young Readers
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Rutgers University Press Rights and Wrongs of Childrens Work Rutgers
Book Synopsis Rights and Wrongs of Children''s Work, authored by an interdisciplinary team of experts, incorporates recent theoretical advances and experiences to explore the place of labor in children''s lives and development.This groundbreaking book considers international policies governing children''s work and the complexity of assessing the various effects of their work. The authors question current child labor policies and interventions, which, even though pursued with the best intentions, too often fail to protect children against harm or promote their access to education and other opportunities for decent futures. They argue for the need to re-think the assumptions that underlie current policies on the basis of empirical evidence, and they recommend new approaches to advance working children''s well-being and guarantee their human rights.Rights and Wrongs of Children''s Work condemns the exploitation and abuse of child workers and supports the right ofTrade Review"Bourdillon and colleagues analyze the problems, benefits, appropriate interventions, culture, and policies related to children's work with a respect for the individual rights of the children involved. Recommended." * Choice *"While this book is not the first to challenge conventional thinking on children's work, it is comprehensive in its analysis and bold in its call for change." * Comparative Education Review *"In Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work, the authors provide us with a definitive and balanced examination of why it is that the majority of the world's children's work for a living. This is an excellent book, which has clearly been designed to engage both the novice and expert. The clarity of reflective thought in this book is particularly impressive and reassuring." * Contemporary Sociology *"Bourdillon and colleagues analyze the problems, benefits, appropriate interventions, culture, and policies related to children's work with a respect for the individual rights of the children involved. Recommended." * Choice *"While this book is not the first to challenge conventional thinking on children's work, it is comprehensive in its analysis and bold in its call for change." * Comparative Education Review *"In Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work, the authors provide us with a definitive and balanced examination of why it is that the majority of the world's children's work for a living. This is an excellent book, which has clearly been designed to engage both the novice and expert. The clarity of reflective thought in this book is particularly impressive and reassuring." * Contemporary Sociology *Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables List of Acronyms 1. Raising Questions, Questioning the Answers "When I was fired, I cried for two weeks": How Intervention Went Wrong in Morocco's Garment Industry Whose Interests? Ways of Thinking Children's Rights Knowledge, Understanding, and Information 2. Work That Children Do What Is Children's Work? What Children Say about Why They Work Concluding Comment 3. Children's Work in Historical and Comparative Perspective Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution in Britain around the Nineteenth Century Child Work, Education, and Interventions in Asia and Africa: Examples from Indonesia and Zimbabwe Children, Work, and Education in Communist Revolutions and Post-Communist Transitions International Standards and Trends in Interventions 4. Child Work and Poverty: A Tangled Relationship What Is Poverty? Defining and Measuring Labor-Force Work Many Poor Children Do Not Work for Pay Labor Supply and Labor Demand General Patterns Children's Earnings: How Much, and Who Gets Them? Are Children Working Instead of Adults, or Undermining Adult Wages? Conditional Cash Transfers as Compensation for School Enrollment Is Child Work a Cultural Phenomenon Rather Than an Economic Necessity? The Effects of Child Work on Poverty Dynamics: How Learning Matters Does Poverty Cause Child Work? 5. Work in Children's Development Framing the Issue The Idea of Human "Development in Social Science Concluding Observations 6. Education, School, and Work "Earn-and-Learn": Tea Estates in Zimbabwe Children's Perceptions The Right to Education School as Work Problems with Schools Can School Mix with Work? Combining Labor-Force Work with School Learning through Work Conclusion 7. Children Acting for Themselves Agency of Children Street Children Independent Migration Organizations of Working Children Child Participation in Making Decisions 8. Assessing Harm against Benefits Child Domestic Work: Pros and Cons A Continuum of Harm and Benefit Intolerable Forms and Conditions of Work Assessing Hazardous Work Weighing Harm against Benefits A Note on Exploitation What Does This Mean in Practice? 9. The Politics of International Intervention The Case of Child Garment Workers in Bangladesh: Tragedy or Scandal? Stitching Footballs in Sialkot What Should Be Learned from These Experiences? Promoting and Protecting the Interests of Children Who Work: A Case in Egypt Concluding Thoughts 10. Policies and Interventions: What Should They Achieve, and How? Starting Points Principles Practice Notes References Index
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MW - Rutgers University Press Learning Race Learning Place Shaping Racial Identities and Ideas in African American Childhoods Series in Childhood Studies Series in Childhood Studies Hardcover
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Rutgers University Press Kids in the Middle How Children of Immigrants
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A rich synthesis of research on immigration and family dynamics integrated with data from a significant ethnographic research project, giving us a compelling view of the role some children in immigrant families play as brokers within their family systems and the consequences of this role for themselves and their families." * Journal of Child and Media *"This book is informative, insightful, and interesting. The chapters provide solid data and research, but also personal narratives that help the reader get a better understanding of child brokers and their unique responsibilities." * Journal of Youth and Adolescence *"Engaging like a novel, but solid as a major academic work … Katz has the ability to present theory, case studies, and findings in an engaging way that makes this topic relevant and comprehensible not only for academics but also for people who interact with immigrant families and child brokers on a daily basis." * International Journal of Communication *"Vikki Katz’s nuanced ethnography offers a fascinating analysis of how brokering performed by children of immigrants can both promote and undermine the larger immigrant bargain." -- Robert Courtney Smith * Baruch School of Public Affairs and Sociology Department, Graduate Center, CUNY *"With richly painted portraits of children and families working together in a variety of contexts, this book deepens our understanding of the complex work involved in immigrant family language brokering, as well as ways to support that work. Katz shows the critical role that youth play in giving families access to new media technologies as well as to health and wellness." -- Marjorie Faulstich Orellana * UCLA *"Kids in the Middle is a timely, informative, and methodologically well-designed study. Katz impressively approaches the topic of children brokers with a multi-methodological design that will fill a gap in current scholarship." -- Angie Y. Chung * University at Albany *Table of ContentsList of Tables Acknowledgments 1 Children, Family and Community 2 Settling in Greater Crenshaw 3 Child Brokers and Their Families 4 Community Begins at Home 5 Gateways to Wellbeing 6 Shortchanging the Immigrant Bargain? 7 Brokering and Its Consequences Appendix: Challenges of Departure Notes References Index
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Rutgers University Press Child Soldiers in the Western Imagination From
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Child Soldiers in the Western Imagination is fascinating for readers from different backgrounds, including sociology, law, history and anthropology. ... The accessible language makes Rosen’s book a singularly important source in understanding the complexities of child soldiering." * Children & Society *"A leader in the reinvigoration of child and youth studies in US anthropology, Rosen offers a mature scholar's command of the issues … Working against the expected binary, Rosen combines history and anthropology to challenge the image of child soldiers as particularly African or as the product of a new barbarism in war ... Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." * CHOICE *"Excellent, in-depth, and superbly written." * RALPH *"Rosen leaves readers in no doubt as to the dangers of historical amnesia." * The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth *"In this masterly volume Rosen brings meticulous scholarship to bear in a powerful narrative challenging advocates who mythologize the innocence of child combatants across the developing world today." -- Jo Boyden * University of Oxford *Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgementsChapter 1—A Tale of Two OrphansChapter 2—The Struggle over RecruitmentChapter 3—Child Soldiers in World War IIChapter 4—The Child Soldier in Popular CultureChapter 5—Modern Child SoldiersChapter 6—The Politics and Culture of Childhood VulnerabilityNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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MW - Rutgers University Press Producing Excellence The Making of Virtuosos
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Rutgers University Press Family Trouble MiddleClass Parents Childrens Problems and The Disruption of Everyday Life
Book SynopsisOur children mean the world to us. They are so central to our hopes and dreams that we will do almost anything to keep them healthy, happy, and safe. What happens, then, when a child has serious problems? In Family Trouble, a compelling portrait of upheaval in family life, sociologist Ara Francis tells the stories of middle-class men and women whose children face significant medical, psychological, and social challenges. Francis interviewed the mothers and fathers of children with such problems as depression, bi-polar disorder, autism, learning disabilities, drug addiction, alcoholism, fetal alcohol syndrome, and cerebral palsy. Children's problems, she finds, profoundly upset the foundations of parents' everyday lives, overturning taken-for-granted expectations, daily routines, and personal relationships. Indeed, these problems initiated a chain of disruption that moved through parents' lives in domino-like fashion, culminating in a crisis characterized by uncertainty, loneliness, guTrade Review“This smart, engaging book demonstrates the complicated nature of parenthood - a salient identity for most adults in the United States today. Especially impressive is Francis’s ability to weave through multiple sociological constructs and subfields, including medicalization, stigma, identity, emotion work, gender, and disability.” * American Journal of Sociology *"An exquisite and magnificent piece of sociological scholarship, Family Trouble is clear, interesting, and highly engaging. Francis’s study and analysis are rich and nuanced as she covers the many dimensions of the phenomenon she calls 'family trouble.'" -- Eviatar Zerubavel * author of Hidden in Plain Sight as well as Ancestors and Relatives *"Family Trouble offers rich, empirically based insights into the everyday, relational and emotional processes that mark the distinctive forms of 'concerted cultivation' pursued by contemporary middle-class American families with 'problemed' children." -- Robert M. Emerson * professor emeritus of sociology at UCLA *Table of ContentsPreface1 Parents in Trouble2 Constructing Trouble, Losing Certainty3 Elusive Remedies and Disrupted Routines4 Stigma and Disrupted Relationships5 Unmet Expectations and Emotional Turmoil6 Disrupted Selves, Making Sense and Making Do7 Family TroubleAppendix AAppendix BBibliographyIndex
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Rutgers University Press Childs Play Sport in Kids Worlds Critical Issues
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A carefully crafted and meticulously organized anthology, Child's Play provides a much needed research agenda for studying physical activities and sport participation among young people, and serves as a valuable source of information for any parent or adult concerned about youth sports." -- Jay Coakley * author of Sports in Society: Issues and Controversies *"A much needed contribution to the fields of childhood and sport studies." * Sport in American History *"Together, these essays present an understanding of youth sports supported by research data and ethnographic data that share a child’s voice. This convincing collection recognizes the culture of youth sport and its bearing on the growth of youth. It is for anyone interested in youth sports... Highly recommended." * Choice *"Messner and Musto have pulled together a powerful collection of essays that offer panoramic insight and riveting detail. The voices of kids are truly revelatory and powerfully demonstrate children’s cultural fluency within the constraints of age and other inequities. Child’s Play is a rare achievement that centers kids’ experience in sports while using it as a crucial prism onto other major sociological projects." -- Allison Pugh * University of Virginia *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Kids and Sport Michael A. Messner and Michela Musto Part I. Playing Fields: The Social Landscape of Youth Sports Chapter 1. Surveying Youth Sports in America: What We Know and What It Means for Public Policy Chapter 2. Kids of Color in the American Sporting Landscape: Limited, Concentrated, and Controlled Chapter 3. Girls and the Racialization of Female Bodies in Sport Contexts Chapter 4. Sport and the Childhood Obesity Epidemic Chapter 5. The Children Are Our Future: The NFL, Corporate Social Responsibility, and the Production of “Avid Fans” Part II. Fields of Play: Kids Navigating Sport Worlds Chapter 6. Athletes in the Pool, Girls and Boys on Deck: The Contextual Construction of Gender in Coed Youth Swimming Chapter 7. The Voices of Boys on Sport, Health, and Physical Activity: The Beginning of Life Through a Gendered Lens Chapter 8. “We Have a Right to the Gym”: Physical Activity Experiences of East African Immigrant Girls Chapter 9. Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Kids and the Binary Obstacles of Sport Participation in North America Chapter 10. Examining Boys, Bodies, and PE Locker Room Spaces: “I Don’t Ever Set Foot in That Locker Room” Chapter 11. Park “Rats” to Park “Daddies”: Community Heads Creating Future Mentors Afterword: Kids, Sport Research, and Sport Policy Notes on Contributors Index
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MW - Rutgers University Press Childs Play Sport in Kids Worlds Critical Issues in Sport and Society
Book SynopsisIs sport good for kids? When answering this question, both critics and advocates of youth sports tend to fixate on matters of health. Child's Play presents a more nuanced examination of the issue, considering not only the physical impacts of youth athletics, but its psychological and social ramifications as well.Trade Review"A carefully crafted and meticulously organized anthology, Child's Play provides a much needed research agenda for studying physical activities and sport participation among young people, and serves as a valuable source of information for any parent or adult concerned about youth sports." -- Jay Coakley * author of Sports in Society: Issues and Controversies *"A much needed contribution to the fields of childhood and sport studies." * Sport in American History *"Together, these essays present an understanding of youth sports supported by research data and ethnographic data that share a child’s voice. This convincing collection recognizes the culture of youth sport and its bearing on the growth of youth. It is for anyone interested in youth sports... Highly recommended." * Choice *"Messner and Musto have pulled together a powerful collection of essays that offer panoramic insight and riveting detail. The voices of kids are truly revelatory and powerfully demonstrate children’s cultural fluency within the constraints of age and other inequities. Child’s Play is a rare achievement that centers kids’ experience in sports while using it as a crucial prism onto other major sociological projects." -- Allison Pugh * University of Virginia *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Kids and Sport Michael A. Messner and Michela Musto Part I. Playing Fields: The Social Landscape of Youth Sports Chapter 1. Surveying Youth Sports in America: What We Know and What It Means for Public Policy Chapter 2. Kids of Color in the American Sporting Landscape: Limited, Concentrated, and Controlled Chapter 3. Girls and the Racialization of Female Bodies in Sport Contexts Chapter 4. Sport and the Childhood Obesity Epidemic Chapter 5. The Children Are Our Future: The NFL, Corporate Social Responsibility, and the Production of “Avid Fans” Part II. Fields of Play: Kids Navigating Sport Worlds Chapter 6. Athletes in the Pool, Girls and Boys on Deck: The Contextual Construction of Gender in Coed Youth Swimming Chapter 7. The Voices of Boys on Sport, Health, and Physical Activity: The Beginning of Life Through a Gendered Lens Chapter 8. “We Have a Right to the Gym”: Physical Activity Experiences of East African Immigrant Girls Chapter 9. Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Kids and the Binary Obstacles of Sport Participation in North America Chapter 10. Examining Boys, Bodies, and PE Locker Room Spaces: “I Don’t Ever Set Foot in That Locker Room” Chapter 11. Park “Rats” to Park “Daddies”: Community Heads Creating Future Mentors Afterword: Kids, Sport Research, and Sport Policy Notes on Contributors Index
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Rutgers University Press The War of My Generation Youth Culture and the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This carefully edited volume encourages thought about the impact of war, from 9/11 to involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, on youth in the US through 11 elegant and lucid essays that variously use ethnographic methods and literary and cultural analyses, together with practical reflections on pedagogical method ... Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"[A] welcome collection of essays … The War of My Generation evinces the historian William Appleman Williams's pithy observation that in the United States empire is, and has long been, 'a way of life.'" * The Chronicle of Higher Education *"A compelling study of what it means to grow up in the shadow of 9/11--the War on Terror truly is the war of their generation." -- Beth Bailey * author of America's Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force *"The array of approaches and resources in this well-conceived and original volume will make it the 'go to' book on how the war on terror has shaped a generation." -- Julia L. Mickenberg * Learning from the Left: Children's Literature, the Cold War, & Radical Politics in the United States *"This collection of essays has created a robust discussion of many aspects of how young people may or may not connect with various actions that are part of the war on terror … The War of My Generation engages the reader in the difficult topics related to the relationship of the military and the personal decision of youth." * IRSCL Reviews *"The War of My Generation is, in some ways, a classic American studies volume, combining a range of disciplinary methods, cultural resources, and popular voices to paint a complex picture of US life at a particular historical moment. Readers with an interdisciplinary bent, who are trained to hunt for diversity where there seems uniformity, will find The War of My Generation compelling." * American Literary History Online Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: “The War of My Generation” Part I Experiences and Attitudes of the 9/11 Generations Chapter 1 Starship Troopers, School Shootings, and September 11: Changing Generational Consciousnesses and 21st Century Youth Chapter 2 Summer, Soldiers, Flags and Memorials: How U.S. Children Learn Nation-Linked Militarism from Holidays Chapter 3 Fighting with Rights and Forging Alliances: Youth Politics in the War on Terror Part II Post-9/11 Militarism in Old and New Media Chapter 4 How to Tell a True War Story . . . for Children: Children’s Literature Addresses Deployment Chapter 5 “What Young Men and Women Do When Their Country Is Attacked”: Interventionist Discourse and the Rewriting of Violence in Adolescent Literature of the Iraq War Chapter 6 Calls of Duty: The World War II Combat Video Game and the Construction of the “Next Great Generation” Chapter 7 Software and Soldier Lifecycles of Recruitment, Training, and Rehabilitation in the Post-9/11 Era Part III Coming of Age Stories and the Representation of Millennial Citizenship During the War on Terror Chapter 8 Coming of Age in 9/11 Fiction: Bildungsroman and Loss of Innocence Chapter 9 “Army Strong”: Mexican American Youth and Military Recruitment in All She Can Part IV Politics and Pedagogy Chapter 10 In This War But Not Of It: Teaching, Memory, and the Futures of Children and War Chapter 11 “Coffins After Coffins”: Screening Wartime Atrocity in the Classroom Afterword: Scholarship on Millennial and Post-Millennial Culture During the War on Terror: A Bibliographic Essay Notes List of Contributors Index
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Rutgers University Press Life after Guns Reciprocity and Respect among
Book SynopsisExplores how ex-combatants and other post-war youth negotiated a depleted and difficult social and cultural landscape in the years following Liberia's fourteen-year bloody civil war. Unlike others who study child soldiers, Abby Hardgrove's ethnography looks at both former combatants and also the youth who were not recruited to fight.Trade Review"Hardgrove's careful ethnography of post-war Liberia succeeds at one of anthropology's core missions: she undermines the stereotypes and easy answers standing in the way of true understanding and meaningful engagement." -- Danny Hoffman * author of The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia *"Life after Guns is a much needed study about excombatant and other youth in the Liberian post-war reality. Hardgrove takes us beyond previous studies of excombatant youth only, showing the importance of a broader generational and relational perspective on both conflict and post-conflicts." -- Mats Utas * editor of African Conflicts and Informal Power: Big Men and Networks *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Acronyms 1 Introduction2 A History of Violence3 Reciprocity, Respect, and Becoming “Established”4 Street Youth: Life on the Periphery5 Life in Armed Groups6 Life after Guns: Reintegration as Social Process7 Conclusion: On Dominance and Discourse ReferencesIndex
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Rutgers University Press American Girls and Global Responsibility A New
Book SynopsisBrings together insights from Cold War culture studies, girls' studies, and the history of gender and militarization to shed new light on how age and gender work together to form categories of citizenship. Jennifer Helgren argues that a new internationalist girl citizenship took root in the country in the years following World War II in youth organizations and magazines like Seventeen.Trade Review"Helgren addresses a missing chapter in the history of American girlhood: their roles as productive citizens in the postwar United States. This is a welcome and well-researched study that shows how girls worked to build a peaceful, outward looking, and internationalist citizenship befitting a nation seeking to reestablish ties with its former enemies." -- Rachel Devlin * author of Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Postwar American Culture *"Drawing on extensive historical evidence created by girls, Helgren cogently demonstrates that despite being stereotyped as 'frivolous,' pre-adolescent and teenage girls contributed to post-World War II efforts to create friendly, peaceful international relationships while also promoting U.S. global leadership in the early Cold War. This book is a valuable contribution to histories of childhood and youth, gender, U.S. foreign relations, and peace activism." -- Donna Alvah * author of 'Unofficial Ambassadors': American Military Families Overseas and the Cold War, 1946-1965 *"Helgren's study provides a fresh examination of cultural diplomacy in the early Cold War years by demonstrating how American girls and their organizations advanced U.S. foreign policy. [The book] skillfully connects an impressive level of primary research to the scholarship on childhood, gender, and international relations." * Peace & Change *"In this exceptional study of mid-twentieth-century youth culture, Helgren provides an insightful and engaging perspective of postwar girlhood and the literature that influenced it." * Children's Literature Association Quarterly *"Helgren’s study adds a new and important perspective to conversations on citizenship, internationalism, and gender in the early Cold War era." * American Historical Review *"In a world where people are divided and marginalized, Helgren’s work offers valuable lessons about the important roles that girl citizens can teach Americans today about global cooperation and mutual understanding." * Journal for the History of Childhood and Youth *"American Girls and Global Responsibility is part of a growing body of literature that explores how the constructions of childhood and the actions of young people intersect with histories of war, peace work, and international relations. Much like the youth who collected scrap metal and weeded family victory gardens did their bit during the world wars, a shared spirit of youth was inspired (and required) to do their part, this time in the battle for winning hearts and minds." * Journal of American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction1. “What Kind of World Do You Want?”: Preparing Girls for Peace and Tolerance in the Atomic Age2. “Hello, World, Let’s Get Together”: Building Global Conversations through Pen Pals and Care Packages3. “Famous for Its Cherry Blossoms”: Reimagining Japan and Germany in the Postwar Period4. “Playing Foreign Shopper”: Consuming Internationalism5. “We Hand the Communists Powerful Propaganda Weapons to Use against Us”: Defending Global Citizenship during the Post–World War II Red ScareEpilogue: The Watchers of the Skies NotesIndex
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