Symbolic Childhood

ISBN-10: 0820455806
ISBN-13: 9780820455808
Category: Social Science / Social Work
Pages: 294
Language: English
Published: 2002
Publisher: Peter Lang
Author: Daniel Thomas Cook

Description

In a dozen original essays, contributors to Symbolic Childhood engage directly with the politics of representation byscurtinizing the connection between the exericse of power and portrayals of children and childhood. The voulme as a whole construes childhood not as a givencategory, transparently understood, but as a thoroughly social artifact infused with contradictory and inexact meaning. As a social construct, childhood is thus approached as an active production which can be taken apart and reconstructed in a variety of ways, and for a varietyt of purposes. Chapters examine a range of issues and topics, including: precocio9us and gifted children, gender, sexuality, innocence, school shootings, cartoons, video games, adoption, street children and feral children. Contents: Daniel Thomas Cook: Introduction: Interrogating Symbolic Childhood--Harriet Strandell: On Questions of Representation in iChildhood Ethnography--Mary Lorena Kenny: Orators and Outcasts, Wanderers and Workers: Street Childrenin Brazil--Adriana S. Benzaquen: John, Genie, and Kaspar: Some Recent Scientific Uses of Wildness, Confinfement, and Abuse--Roblyn Rawlins: "Long Rows of Short Graves": Sentimentality, Science, and Child-Saving in the Construction of the Intellectually Precocious Child, 1870-1925--Kathryn Libal: Realizing Modernity Through the Robust Turkish Child, 1923-1938--Janice Hill: Governing Children: The Boy Scouts, theGirl Guides, and Visions of Canadian Nationhood, 1880-1920--Sara K. Dorow: "China 'R' Us"?: Care, Consumoption, and Transantionally Adopted Children--Mark D. Jacobs: The School Shooting as a Ritual of Sacrifice--Susan B. kaiser/Kathleen huun: Fashioning Innocence and Anxiety: ClothingGender, andSymbolic Childhood--Jeffery P. Dennis: The Heterosexualization of Boyhood--Chandra Mukerji/Tarleton Gillespie: Recognizable Ambiguity: Cartoon Imagery and Amercian Childhood in Animaniacs--kStephen Kline/Greig de Peuter: Ghosts in the Machine: Postmodern Childhood, V

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