TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cook,Daniel Thomas
TI  - The Moral Project of Childhood: Motherhood, Material Life, and Early Children's Consumer Culture 
SN  - 9781479899203
AV  - HQ759 .C727 2020eb
U1  - 306.874/3 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Child consumers
KW  - Consumers
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Motherhood
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Allowances
KW  - Children's Rights
KW  - Children's rooms
KW  - Creative Child
KW  - Depravity
KW  - Developmentalism
KW  - Discipline
KW  - Empathy
KW  - Feminization
KW  - Girlhood
KW  - Malleability
KW  - Market Research
KW  - Memory
KW  - Money
KW  - Moral architecture
KW  - Moral project
KW  - Pedagogy
KW  - Pleasure
KW  - Pre-capitalist child
KW  - Predestination
KW  - Property
KW  - Provisioning
KW  - Punishment
KW  - Reward
KW  - Simplicity
KW  - Subjectivity
KW  - Taste
KW  - Value
KW  - child
KW  - consumption
KW  - interiority
KW  - materiality
KW  - morality
KW  - mother
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Examines the Protestant origins of motherhood and the child consumer Throughout history, the responsibility for children's moral well-being has fallen into the laps of mothers. In The Moral Project of Childhood, the noted childhood studies scholar Daniel Thomas Cook illustrates how mothers in the nineteenth-century United States meticulously managed their children's needs and wants, pleasures and pains, through the material world so as to produce the "child" as a moral project. Drawing on a century of religiously-oriented child care advice in women's periodicals, he examines how children ultimately came to be understood by mothers-and later, by commercial actors-as consumers. From concerns about taste, to forms of discipline and punishment, to play and toys, Cook delves into the social politics of motherhood, historical anxieties about childhood, and early children's consumer culture. An engaging read, The Moral Project of Childhood provides a rich cultural history of childhood
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ER  -