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Children's Culture Reader

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ISBN-10: 0814742327

ISBN-13: 9780814742327

Edition: 1998

Authors: Henry Jenkins

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Every major political and social dispute of the twentieth century has been fought on the backs of our children, from the economic reforms of the progressive era through the social readjustments of civil rights era and on to the current explosion of anxieties about everything from the national debt to the digital revolution. Far from noncombatants whom we seek to protect from the contamination posed by adult knowledge, children form the very basis on which we fight over the nature and values of our society, and over our hopes and fears for the future.Unfortunately, our understanding of childhood and children has not kept pace with their crucial and rapidly changing roles in our culture.…    
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Book details

List price: $39.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 10/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 532
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 2.354
Language: English

Henry Jenkins is Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism and Cinematic Arts at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. He is the coeditor of From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games (MIT Press, 1998).

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Childhood Innocence and Other Modern Myths
Childhood Innocence
From Immodesty to Innocence
The Case of Peter Pan: The Impossibility of Children's Fiction
Children in the House: The Material Culture of Early Childhood
From Useful to Useless: Moral Conflict over Child Labor
The Making of Children's Culture
Seducing the Innocent: Childhood and Television in Postwar America
Unlearning Black and White: Race, Media, and the Classroom
The New Childhood: Home Alone As a Way of Life
Child Abuse and the Unconscious in American Popular Culture
Childhood Sexuality
Fun Morality: An Analysis of Recent American Child-Training Literature
The Sensuous Child: Benjamin Spock and the Sexual Revolution
How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay
Producing Erotic Children
Popular Culture and the Eroticization of Little Girls
Stealing Innocence: The Politics of Child Beauty Pageants
A Credit to Her Mother
Child's Play
Children's Desires/Mothers' Dilemmas: The Social Contexts of Consumption
Boys and Girls Together ... But Mostly Apart
Boy Culture
The Politics of Dollhood in Nineteenth-Century America
Older Heads on Younger Bodies
Confections, Concoctions, and Conceptions
Living in a World of Words
The Tidy House
Sourcebook
Introduction
Reaching Juvenile Markets
Does Your "Research" Embrace the Boy of Today?
"Selling" Food to Children
The Family in Crisis
After the Family - What?
Against the Threat of Mother Love
Children at War
Children in Wartime: Parents' Questions
You Are Citizen Soldiers
Raise Your Boy to Be a Soldier
Popular Culture and the Family
"Such Trivia As Comic Books"
The Play's the Thing
Freedom and Responsibility
New Parents for Old
Families and the World Outside
Time Bombs in Our Homes
Democratic and Autocratic Child Rearing
The Permissive Family
The Contemporary Mother and Father
The New Oedipal Drama of the Permissive Family
The Modern Pediocracy
Contributors
Permissions
Index