Children in culture, revisited : further approaches to childhood / edited by Karín Lesnik-Oberstein.

Other author Lesnik-Oberstein, Karín.
Format Book
Publication InfoHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Descriptionxi, 232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction: Voice, agency, and the child / Karin Lesnik-Oberstein -- Gender and childhood in neoliberal times: contemporary tropes of the boychild in psychological culture / Erica Burman -- Playthings: archaeology and the material ambiguities of childhood / Eleanor Conlin Casella -- Homophobic bullying: a queer tale of childhood politics / Daniel Monk -- Reading the 'happy child': normative discourse in wellbeing education / Hannah Anglin-Jaffe -- Perspectives and community: constructions of autism and childhood / Helen Ainslie -- Bothering about words: children's literature and ideas of simplicity and instruction / Sarah Spooner -- Irony and the child / Sue Walsh -- Fort/da: a reading of Pictures of innocence by Anne Higonnet / Neil Cocks -- Television for children: problems of national specificity and globalization / Jonathan Bignell -- Out with Romany: simulating the natural in BBC radio's Children's hour 1932-1943 / Simon Flynn -- Vital victims: senses of children in the urban / Jenny Bavidge.
General noteIncludes index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011012057
ISBN9780230275546 (hardback)
ISBN0230275540 (hardback)