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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797733803321

Titolo

Critical childhood studies and the practice of interdisciplinarity : disciplining the child / / edited by Joanne Faulkner, Magdalena Zolkos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4985-2576-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Collana

Children and Youth in Popular Culture

Disciplina

155.4

Soggetti

Children - Study and teaching

Child psychology

Children - Services for

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: The Child in Memory; 1 Locating the Child within the History of Childhood; 2 Theorizing Childhood in Second-Wave Feminism; 3 "Ancestral Guilt"; Part II: The Child in Imagination; 4 The Nature of the Child and the Child of Nature; 5 Humanity's Little Scrap Dealers; 6 Childhood, Character, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel; Part III: The Institutionalized Child; 7 Investment, Risk, and Other Ways of Thinking about Children; 8 Discursive Children; Index; About the Editor and Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

This book analyzes different figurations of childhood in contemporary culture and politics with a particular focus on interdisciplinary methodologies of critical childhood studies. Traditionally, the figure of the child has been located at the peripheries of academic disciplines. However, critical discussions of the ideological, symbolic and affective roles that children play in contemporary societies suggest that they are often the locus of larger societal crises, collective psychic tensions, and unspoken prohibitions and taboos.