ISBN:
9781860647758
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (232 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Picturing Childhood : The Myth of the Child in Popular Imagery
DDC:
305.23
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
With debates over children's rights in the 1970s, child sexual abuse in the 1980s, violent children in the 1990s and precocity and consumerism in the 2000s, the traditional image of childhood innocence survives only as a form of kitsch. Using images from a wide variety of sources, this text considers the popular imagery in relation to news, education, welfare, charity and consumerism and asks what implications does all this have for the ways in which children themselves are treated?
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface - Twenty-first-century childhood and the routine spectacular; Introduction - Pictures of Children: images of childhood; 1. There's no such thing as a baby... or is there?; 2. Superbrats in the charmed circle of home; 3. Ignorant pupils and harmonious nature; 4. The fantasy of liberation and the demand for rights; 5. No future: the threat of childhood and the impossibility of youth; 6. Crybabies and damaged children; 7. Gender, sexuality and a fantasy for girls; Postscript - Escape from childhood; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
