Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (200 S.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Reinventing Childhood After World War II
DDC:
305.2309045
Keywords:
American History
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Main description: This volume brings together prominent historians of modern childhood in an effort to define how children's lives and our conceptions of childhood have changed since World War II. Essays explore how childhood has transformed in response to major elements of change, including schooling, parenting, law, culture, and the global economy.
Abstract:
Biographical note: Paula S. Fass is Professor of the Graduate School and Margaret Byrne Professor Emerita of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Michael Grossberg is Sally M. Reahard Professor of History and Professor of Law at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Preface ""; ""1: The Child-Centered Family? New Rules in Postwar America ""; ""2: Liberation and Caretaking: Fighting over Children's Rights in Postwar America ""; ""3: The Changing Face of Children's Culture ""
Description / Table of Contents:
""4: Ten is the New Fourteen: Age Compression and "Real" Childhood """"5: Whose Child? Parenting and Custody in the Postwar Period ""; ""6: Children, the State, and the American Dream ""; ""7: Children and the Swedish Welfare State: From Different to Similar ""; ""Notes ""; ""List of Contributors ""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Index """"Acknowledgments ""
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.9783/9780812205169
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812205169
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812205169
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