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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818730903321

Titolo

Children's childhoods : observed and experienced / / edited with an introduction by Berry Mayall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Washington, D.C., : Falmer Press, 1994

ISBN

1-135-71940-3

1-135-71941-1

1-280-31653-5

0-203-48618-8

0-203-20943-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MayallBerry

Disciplina

305.23

Soggetti

Child development

Children

Children and adults

Socialization

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 (p. 169-179) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; Women and Children First and Last: Parallels and Differences between Children's and Women's Studies; Children's Rights; Researching Children's Rights to Integrity; The Family; A Refuge from Demands or an Arena for the Exercise of Power and Control; Children's Fictions on Their Future Families; Television and the Definition of Childhood; Creating the Capable Body: Discourses about Ability and Effort in Primary and Secondary School Studies; Children in Action at Home and School

Responsible Children? Aspects of Children's Work and Employment Outside School in Contemporary UKOpportunities for Childhoods in Late Twentieth Century Britain; Childhood as a Mode of Production; Notes on Contributors; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This text explores the social status of children, through consideration of their positioning in a range of social settings and in sociological theory. It focuses on children as social actors in constructing the social order and participating in it.