The American child : a cultural studies reader / edited by Caroline F. Levander and Carol J. Singley.

Other author Levander, Caroline Field, 1964-
Other author Singley, Carol J., 1951-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2003.
Descriptionviii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Child's play / Gillian Brown -- Playing at class / Karen Sánchez-Eppler -- The miniaturizing of girlhood : nineteenth-century play time and gendered theories of development / Melanie Dawson -- Of babies, beasts, and bondage : slavery and the question of citizenship in antebellum American children's literature / Lesley Ginsberg -- Betsy and the canon / Kelly Hager -- Traumatic realism and the wounded child / Jane F. Thrailkill -- Constructing the psychoanalytic child : Freud's history of an infantile neurosis / Michelle A. Massé -- Black babies, white hysteria : the dark child in African-American literature of the Harlem renaissance / Laura Dawkins -- Lewis Hine's family romance / Richard S. Lowry -- On boyhood and public swimming : Sidney Kingsley's Dead end and representations of underclass street kids in American cultural production / Jeffrey Turner -- The pedagogy of the popular front : "progressive parenting" for a new generation, 1918-1945 / Julia Mickenberg -- "Please let me come home" : homesickness and family ties at early-twentieth-century summer camps / Leslie Paris -- Transformative terrains : Korean adoptees and the social constructions of an American childhood / Catherine Ceniza Choy and Gregory Paul Choy -- Reel origins: multiculturalism, history, and the American children's movie / Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2002156095
ISBN0813532221 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN081353223X (pbk. : alk. paper)