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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction: Childhood in America: Past and Present | |
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Before the Birth of One of Her Children | |
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Women as Childbearers, 1650-1750 | |
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Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America | |
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Mothers' Sacred Duty: Breast-Feeding Patterns among Middle- and Upper-Class Women in the Antebellum South | |
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Reconstructing Motherhood: The La Leche League in Postwar America | |
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Amazing Births: Medical History in "Miracle" Births | |
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Woman Gives Birth to Baby Conceived outside the Body | |
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The Eggs, Embryos, and I | |
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The Egg Women | |
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Choosing Childlessness | |
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Thoughts on Child Rearing | |
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The Use of Reason in Child Rearing | |
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Toys | |
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The Cry | |
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Too Much Mother Love | |
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The Mother-Child Dyad Revisited: Perceptions of Mothers and Children in Twentieth-Century Child-Rearing Manuals | |
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Child Science and the Rise of the Experts | |
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The Construction of Reality in the Child | |
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Understanding the Infant | |
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Mothers and Fathers Working and Rearing Children | |
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In Reference to Her Children, 23 June, 1659 | |
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Breeching Little Ffrank | |
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Suits and Frocks | |
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American Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century | |
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Nineteenth-Century Boys' Literature | |
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Briar Rose | |
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Little Women | |
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Nancy Drew and the Secret of the Old Clock | |
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The Sexual Life of the Child | |
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Feminine Psychology | |
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Male and Female: Sex and Temperament | |
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Infantile Sexuality | |
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Moral Reasoning in Girls and Boys | |
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How Schools Shortchange Girls | |
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Courtship and Gender Differences | |
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Children's Voices from the Civil War | |
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Adolescence in Historical Perspective | |
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The Physiology and Psychology of Adolescence | |
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Compulsory Schooling and Parent-Adolescent Relations | |
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The Natural History of the Gang | |
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Adolescent Girls in Samoa and America | |
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Identity, Youth, and Crisis | |
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Anorexia Nervosa in the 1980s | |
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Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls | |
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Families Started by Teenagers | |
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Why the Young Kill | |
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Petting | |
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The Member of the Wedding | |
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Manchild in the Promised Land | |
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Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story | |
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Adulthood? Later, Dude! | |
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Family Life in Plymouth Colony | |
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Protecting Children from Abusing Masters | |
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Inculcating Self-Discipline | |
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Introducing Children into the Social Order | |
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A Milder and Warmer Family Government | |
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Learning Self-Control | |
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The Life of a Slave Child | |
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Managing Young Children | |
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Corporal Punishment | |
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Cracking Down on Kids | |
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Fathers/Masters: Children/Servants | |
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Children's Involuntary Labor | |
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Apprentices, Servants, and Child Labor | |
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Children and Manufactures | |
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Choosing a Trade | |
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Children in the Mills | |
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Children at Work in the City | |
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A Child Worker in the Garment Industry | |
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The Changing Social Value of Children | |
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Coming of Age in Mississippi | |
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Children and the New Deal | |
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American Children in the Second World War | |
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Child Labor and the Law | |
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Working Children in Contemporary Chinatown | |
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Education and the Concept of Childhood | |
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Family Instruction in Early Massachusetts | |
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A Puritan Education | |
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Emile | |
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Moral Education for Citizenship | |
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The Education of Mary Anna Longstreth | |
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Tom Sawyer's Examination Day | |
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The Child and the Curriculum | |
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Testing the IQ of Children | |
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For the Love of Books | |
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School Desegregation | |
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Education in the Post-Sputnik Era | |
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Children of Crisis | |
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Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez | |
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The Quest for Clarity | |
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Children and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act | |
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The Theory of Multiple Intelligences | |
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Mother's Little Helper: Ritalin and Attention Deficit Disorder | |
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Kidnapping and White Servitude | |
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Orphans' Court | |
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Abraham Lincoln and Sarah Bush Lincoln | |
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A Childhood in Slavery | |
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Placing Orphan Children with Farm Families | |
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Huckleberry Finn | |
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Shadow of the Plantation: Separation and Adoption | |
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Surviving the Breakup: How Children Respond to Divorce | |
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Solomon's Children: The New Biologism, Psychological Parenthood, Attachment Theory, and the Best Interests Standard | |
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Fit to Be a Parent? | |
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Lesbian Parents in Custody Disputes | |
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Surrogacy and Child Custody | |
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Teenage Voices from Foster Care | |
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Foster Care and the Politics of Compassion | |
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Orphanage Revival Gains Ground | |
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Waifs of the City's Slums | |
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Preserving the Home | |
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The Mothers' Aid Movement | |
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Infant Mortality | |
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Polio | |
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"Welcome to Willowbrook" | |
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Kidnapping in Contemporary America | |
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The Last Frontier in Child Abuse | |
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By Silence Betrayed: The Sexual Abuse of Children in America | |
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Miscounting Social Ills | |
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Psychiatric Hospitals for Juveniles? | |
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Couple Held in Beating of Daughter | |
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A Glimpse into a Hell for Helpless Infants | |
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An Infant's Death, an Ancient "Why?" | |
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Media Violence and Children | |
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A Teenage Voice from Foster Care | |
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The Turn of the Screw | |
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Child-Loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture | |
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Polymorphous Perversity | |
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Delinquent Daughters: The Age-of-Consent Campaign | |
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Coming of Age in Samoa | |
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Preadolescent Sexuality | |
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Lolita | |
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The Disappearance of Childhood: The Total Disclosure Medium | |
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The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory | |
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The Unraveling of a Monstrous Secret | |
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On Prison Computer, Files to Make Parents Shiver | |
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The Politics of Parental Notification | |
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The Family in the Social Order | |
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The Child-Saving Movement | |
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The Progressive-Era Transformation of Child Protection, 1900-1920 | |
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The State as Superparent | |
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The Children's Bureau | |
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The Establishment of Juvenile Courts | |
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Juvenile Court and the Artistry of Approach | |
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The Children's Charter | |
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The First Amendment in School | |
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Juveniles' Right to Due Process | |
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Punishing Very Young Criminals | |
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Vote for Eighteen-Year-Olds: What Justices Said on Both Sides | |
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The Right to Vote | |
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Now That the Voting Age Is Lower ... | |
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Contraception | |
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Abortion | |
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Mental Health and the Rights of the Child | |
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Visitation Rights | |
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A Voice for the Child? | |
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United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child | |
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The Material Culture of Early Childhood: The Upright Child | |
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My Life in the South | |
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A Russian Jewish Girlhood on the Lower East Side | |
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Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America | |
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Call It Sleep | |
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Young Lonigan | |
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Growing Up Native American: The Language We Know | |
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Down These Mean Streets | |
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | |
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China Boy | |
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Talking to High Monks in the Snow: An Asian American Odyssey | |
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | |
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The Days Gone By | |
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The Wizard of Oz | |
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Anne of Green Gables | |
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The Sneetches | |
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Snozzcumbers | |
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American Children and Their Books | |
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Children in Fiction and Fact | |
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Kids' Stuff: Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood | |
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What Makes Nick Tick: Nickelodeon Is a Sensibility, a World, an All-Empowering Club. It's CNN for Children | |
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Children's Literary Voices | |
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Sources | |
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Index | |
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About the Editors | |