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 Info | New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2003. |
| Description | viii, 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2002156095 |
| ISBN | 0813532221 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 081353223X (pbk. : alk. paper) |