States of Childhood: From the Junior Republic to the American Republic, 1895-1945
- ISBN-10
- 0262358611
- ISBN-13
- 9780262358613
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 480
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-07-14
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Author
- Jennifer S. Light
Description
How "virtual adulthood"--children's role play in simulated cities, states, and nations--helped construct a new kind of "sheltered" childhood for American young people. A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: simulated cities, states, and nations in which children played the roles of legislators, police officers, bankers, journalists, shopkeepers, and other adults. They performed real work--passing laws, growing food, and constructing buildings, among other tasks--inside virtual worlds. In this book, Jennifer Light examines the phenomena of "junior republics" and argues that they marked the transition to a new kind of "sheltered" childhood for American youth. Banished from the labor force and public life, children inhabited worlds that mirrored the one they had left.
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