The Children's Culture Reader

Published by New York University Press 1998

The Children's Culture Reader

Edited by: Henry Jenkins

https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814743782.001.0001

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Examines children as creative and critical thinkers who shape society even as it shapes them

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. Pulling together a range of different thinkers who have rethought the myths of childhood innocence, The Children's Culture Reader develops a profile of children as creative and critical thinkers who shape society even as it shapes them. Representing a range of thinking from history, psychology, anthropology, sociology, economics, women's studies, literature, and media studies, The Children's Culture Reader focuses on issues of parent-child relations, child labor, education, play, and especially the relationship of children to mass media and consumer culture. The contributors include Martha Wolfenstein, Philippe Aries, Jacqueline Rose, James Kincaid, Lynn Spigel, Valerie Walkerdine, Ellen Seiter, Annette Kuhn, Eve Sedgwick, Henry Giroux, and Nancy Scheper-Hughes.

Including a groundbreaking introduction by the editor and a sourcebook section which excerpts a range of material from popular magazines to child rearing guides from the past 75 years, The Children's Culture Reader will propel our understanding of children and childhood into the next century.

Author / Editor information

Jenkins Henry :

Henry Jenkins is Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education at the University of Southern California. He is the author or coauthor of twenty books including Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture, and By Any Media Necessary: The New Youth Activism.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Childhood Innocence and Other Modern Myths Henry Jenkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I: Childhood Innocence
1. From Immodesty to Innocence Philippe Ariés Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
2. The Case of Peter Pan: The Impossibility of Children’s Fiction Jacqueline S. Rose Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
3. Children in the House: The Material Culture of Early Childhood Karin Calvert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
4. From Useful to Useless: Moral Conflict over Child Labor Viviana A. Zelizer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
5. The Making of Children’s Culture Stephen Kline Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
6. Seducing the Innocent: Childhood and Television in Postwar America Lynn Spigel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
7. Unlearning Black and White: Race, Media, and the Classroom Shari Goldin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
8. The New Childhood: Home Alone As a Way of Life Joe L. Kincheloe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
9. Child Abuse and the Unconscious in American Popular Culture Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Howard F. Stein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
PART II: Childhood Sexuality
10. Fun Morality: An Analysis of Recent American Child- Training Literature Martha Wolfenstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
11. The Sensuous Child: Benjamin Spock and the Sexual Revolution Henry Jenkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
12. How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
13. Producing Erotic Children James R. Kincaid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
14. Popular Culture and the Eroticization of Little Girls Valerie Walkerdine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
15. Stealing Innocence: The Politics of Child Beauty Pageants Henry A. Giroux Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
16. A Credit to Her Mother Annette Kuhn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
PART III: Child’s Play
17. Children’s Desires/Mothers’ Dilemmas: The Social Contexts of Consumption Ellen Seiter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
18. Boys and Girls Together . . . But Mostly Apart Barrie Thorne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	318
19. Boy Culture E. Anthony Rotundo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
20. The Politics of Dollhood in Nineteenth-Century America Miriam Formanek-Brunell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
21. Older Heads on Younger Bodies Erica Rand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	382
22. Confections, Concoctions, and Conceptions Allison James Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	394
23. Living in a World of Words Shelby Anne Wolf and Shirley Brice Heath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	406
24. The Tidy House Carolyn Steedman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	431
PART IV: Sourcebook
Section A: Introduction
25. Reaching Juvenile Markets Evalyn Grumbine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	457
26. Does Your ‘‘Research’’ Embrace the Boy of Today? Jess H. Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	462
27. ‘‘Selling’’ Food to Children Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	463
Section B. The Family in Crisis
28. After the Family—What? John B. Watson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	468
29. Against the Threat of Mother Love John B. Watson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	470
Section C: Children at War
30. Children in Wartime: Parents’ Questions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	476
31. You Are Citizen Soldiers Angelo Patri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	480
32. Raise Your Boy to Be a Soldier André Fontaine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	483
Section D: Popular Culture and the Family
33. ‘‘Such Trivia As Comic Books’’ Frederic Wertham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	485
34. The Play’s the Thing Dorothy Walter Baruch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	493
Section E: Freedom and Responsibility
35. New Parents for Old Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	496
36. Families and the World Outside Elizabeth F. Boettiger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	499
37. Time Bombs in Our Homes Mauree Applegate Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	501
38. Democratic and Autocratic Child Rearing Rudolf Dreikurs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	503
Section F: The Permissive Family
39. The Contemporary Mother and Father Lilian Jane Martin and Clare deGruchy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	507
40. The New Oedipal Drama of the Permissive Family Jules Henry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	510
41. The Modern Pediocracy Martha Weinman Lear Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	512
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	515
Permissions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	518
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	523

Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

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Published: October 1, 1998
ISBN: 9780814743782