Troubling children : studies of children and social problems / Joel Best, editor.

Other author Best, Joel.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Aldine de Gruyter, ©1994.
Descriptionvi, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesSocial problems and social issues
Social problems and social issues.
Contents Troubling children : children and social problems / Joel Best -- A threatened generation : impediments to children's quality of life in Kenya / York W. Bradshaw, Claudia Buchmann, Paul N. Mbatia -- When parents discuss the price of bread : Albanian children and the economic crisis / Marion Kloep -- Little strangers : pregnancy conduct and the twentieth-century rhetoric of endangerment / Carol Brooks Gardner -- "Crack babies" and the politics of reproduction and nurturance / Jacquelyn Litt, Maureen McNeil -- Ritual, magic, and educational toys : symbolic aspects of toy selection / Shan Nelson-Rowe -- The changing meanings of spanking? / Phillip W. Davis -- The positive functions of rock and roll music for children and their parents / Joseph A. Kotarba -- Normalizing daycare--normalizing the child : daycare discourse in popular magazines, 1900-1990 / Donileen R. Loseke, Spencer E. Cahill -- The medicalization and demedicalization of school refusal : constructing an educational problem in Japan / Atsushi Yamazaki -- If we don't do anything now, there won't be anything left : categories of concern in children's drawings of environmental crisis / Donna Lee King.
Local noteLittle-303472--305131009162V
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 93050052
ISBN0202304914 (alk. paper)
ISBN0202304922 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks HQ767.9 .T76 1994 ✔ Available Place Hold