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Children in Culture, Revisited

Further Approaches to Childhood

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Karín Lesnik-Oberstein

    1. University of Reading, UK
      Graduate Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, Media (C1RCL), UK

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Voice, Agency and the Child

    • Karín Lesnik-Oberstein
    Pages 1-17

  3. Gender and Childhood in Neoliberal Times: Contemporary Tropes of the Boychild in Psychological Culture

    • Erica Burman
    Pages 18-34

  4. Playthings: Archaeology and the Material Ambiguities of Childhood

    • Eleanor Conlin Casella
    Pages 35-54

  5. Homophobic Bullying: A Queer Tale of Childhood Politics

    • Daniel Monk
    Pages 55-72

  6. Reading the ‘Happy Child’: Normative Discourse in Wellbeing Education

    • Hannah Anglin-Jaffe
    Pages 73-89

  7. Perspectives and Community: Constructions of Autism and Childhood

    • Helen Ainslie
    Pages 90-106

  8. Bothering about Words: Children’s Literature and Ideas of Simplicity and Instruction

    • Sarah Spooner
    Pages 107-125

  9. Irony and the Child

    • Sue Walsh
    Pages 126-146

  10. Fort/Da: A Reading of Pictures of Innocence by Anne Higonnet

    • Neil Cocks
    Pages 147-166

  11. Television for Children: Problems of National Specificity and Globalization

    • Jonathan Bignell
    Pages 167-185

  12. Out with Romany: Simulating the Natural in BBC Radio’s Children’s Hour 1932–1943

    • Simon Flynn
    Pages 186-207

  13. Vital Victims: Senses of Children in the Urban

    • Jenny Bavidge
    Pages 208-222

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 223-232
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About this book

Children in Culture, Revisited follows on from the first volume, Children in Culture , and is composed of a range of chapters, newly written for this collection, which offer further fully inter- and multidisciplinary considerations of childhood as a culturally and historically constructed identity rather than a constant psycho-biological entity.

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'A timely volume that demonstrates the strength of multidisciplinary studies and takes childhood seriously.' - Maria Nikolajeva, Professor of Education, University of Cambridge, UK

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Reading, UK

    Karín Lesnik-Oberstein

  • Graduate Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, Media (C1RCL), UK

    Karín Lesnik-Oberstein

About the editor

HELEN AINSLIE heads her own Dance School in Reading, UK JENNY BAVIDGE Senior Lecturer in English, University of Greenwich, UK JONATHAN BIGNELL Professor of Television and Film, University of Reading, UK ERICA BURMAN Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK ELEANOR CONLIN CASELLA Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Manchester, UK NEIL COCKS Lecturer in English, American and Children's Literature, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Reading, UK SIMON FLYNN Independent Scholar, UK DANIEL MONK Senior Lecturer in Law, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK HANNAH SMITH Lecturer in Special Educational Needs, University of Exeter, UK SARAH SPOONER Independent Scholar, UK SUE WALSH Lecturer in English, American and Children's Literature, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Reading, UK

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