Reinventing Childhood After World War II /
Reinventing Childhood After World War II /
ed. by Michael Grossberg, Paula S. Fass.
- 1 online resource (200 p.)
Frontmatter -- 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 -- 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 -- Index -- Acknowledgments
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In the Western world, the modern view of childhood as a space protected from broader adult society first became a dominant social vision during the nineteenth century. Many of the West's sharpest portrayals of children in literature and the arts emerged at that time in both Europe and the United States and continue to organize our perceptions and sensibilities to this day. But that childhood is now being recreated.Many social and political developments since the end of the World War II have fundamentally altered the lives children lead and are now beginning to transform conceptions of childhood. Reinventing Childhood After World War II brings together seven prominent historians of modern childhood to identify precisely what has changed in children's lives and why. Topics range from youth culture to children's rights; from changing definitions of age to nontraditional families; from parenting styles to how American experiences compare with those of the rest of the Western world. Taken together, the essays argue that children's experiences have changed in such dramatic and important ways since 1945 that parents, other adults, and girls and boys themselves have had to reinvent almost every aspect of childhood.Reinventing Childhood After World War II presents a striking interpretation of the nature and status of childhood that will be essential to students and scholars of childhood, as well as policy makers, educators, parents, and all those concerned with the lives of children in the world today.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812243673 9780812205169
10.9783/9780812205169 doi
Adolescence--History--20th century.--Sweden
Adolescence--History--21st century.--Sweden
Adolescence--History--Sweden--20th century.
Adolescence--History--Sweden--21st century.
Adolescence--History--20th century.--United States
Adolescence--History--21st century.--United States
Adolescence--History--United States--20th century.
Adolescence--History--United States--21st century.
Children--Social conditions.
Children--Social conditions--History--20th century.--Sweden
Children--Social conditions--History--21st century.--Sweden
Children--Social conditions--History--Sweden--20th century.
Children--Social conditions--History--Sweden--21st century.
Children--Social conditions--History--20th century.--United States
Children--Social conditions--History--21st century.--United States
Children--Social conditions--History--United States--20th century.
Children--Social conditions--History--United States--21st century.
American Studies.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
American History. American Studies.
HQ792.U5 / R374 2012eb
305.2309182/109045
Frontmatter -- 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 -- 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 -- Index -- Acknowledgments
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In the Western world, the modern view of childhood as a space protected from broader adult society first became a dominant social vision during the nineteenth century. Many of the West's sharpest portrayals of children in literature and the arts emerged at that time in both Europe and the United States and continue to organize our perceptions and sensibilities to this day. But that childhood is now being recreated.Many social and political developments since the end of the World War II have fundamentally altered the lives children lead and are now beginning to transform conceptions of childhood. Reinventing Childhood After World War II brings together seven prominent historians of modern childhood to identify precisely what has changed in children's lives and why. Topics range from youth culture to children's rights; from changing definitions of age to nontraditional families; from parenting styles to how American experiences compare with those of the rest of the Western world. Taken together, the essays argue that children's experiences have changed in such dramatic and important ways since 1945 that parents, other adults, and girls and boys themselves have had to reinvent almost every aspect of childhood.Reinventing Childhood After World War II presents a striking interpretation of the nature and status of childhood that will be essential to students and scholars of childhood, as well as policy makers, educators, parents, and all those concerned with the lives of children in the world today.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812243673 9780812205169
10.9783/9780812205169 doi
Adolescence--History--20th century.--Sweden
Adolescence--History--21st century.--Sweden
Adolescence--History--Sweden--20th century.
Adolescence--History--Sweden--21st century.
Adolescence--History--20th century.--United States
Adolescence--History--21st century.--United States
Adolescence--History--United States--20th century.
Adolescence--History--United States--21st century.
Children--Social conditions.
Children--Social conditions--History--20th century.--Sweden
Children--Social conditions--History--21st century.--Sweden
Children--Social conditions--History--Sweden--20th century.
Children--Social conditions--History--Sweden--21st century.
Children--Social conditions--History--20th century.--United States
Children--Social conditions--History--21st century.--United States
Children--Social conditions--History--United States--20th century.
Children--Social conditions--History--United States--21st century.
American Studies.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
American History. American Studies.
HQ792.U5 / R374 2012eb
305.2309182/109045