ISBN:
9781782381099
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (264 p)
Series Statement:
Studies in German History
Parallel Title:
Print version Raising Citizens In The ?century Of The Child? : The United States and German Central Europe in Comparative Perspective
DDC:
306.8740943
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The 20th century, declared at its start to be the "Century of the Child" by Swedish author Ellen Key, saw an unprecedented expansion of state activity in and expert knowledge on child-rearing on both sides of the Atlantic. Children were seen as a crucial national resource whose care could not be left to families alone. However, the exact scope and degree of state intervention and expert influence as well as the rights and roles of mothers and fathers remained subjects of heated debates throughout the century. While there is a growing scholarly interest in the history of childhood, research in
Description / Table of Contents:
Raising Citizens in the "Century of the Child"; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction - Child-Rearing and Citizenship in the Twentieth Century; Part I - Foundations; Chapter 1 - Children and the National Interest; Part II - New Beginnings; Chapter 2 - Children's Future, Nation's Future: Race, Citizenship, and the United States Children's Bureau; Chapter 3 - From Reform Pedagogy to War Pedagogy: Education Reform before 1914 and the Mobilization for War in Germany
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 4 - ""Linked with the Welfare of All Peoples"": The American Kindergarten, Americanization, and Internationalism in the First World WarPart III - Parental Rights and State Demands; Chapter 5 - How Should We Raise Our Son Benjamin? Advice Literature for Mothers in Early Twentieth-Century Germany; Chapter 6 - Debunking Mother Love: American Mothers and the Momism Critique in the Mid Twentieth Century; Chapter 7 - Fatherhood, Rechristianization, and the Quest for Democracy in Postwar West Germany; Part III - Parental Rights and State Demands
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 8 - Who Owns Children? Parents, Children, and the State in the United States SouthChapter 9 - ""Children Betray Their Father and Mother"": Collective Education, Nationalism, and Democracy in the Bohemian Lands, 1900-1948; Chapter 10 - Asserting Their ""Natural Right"": Parents and Public Schooling in Post-1945 Germany; Chapter 11 - ""Special Relationships"": The State, Social Workers, and Abused Children in the United States, 1950-1990; Select Bibliography; Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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