Childhoods: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children and Youth – serie
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American Tomboys, 1850-1915
Häftad, 2018
366 kr
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A lot of women remember having had tomboy girlhoods. Some recall it as a time of gender-bending freedom and rowdy pleasures. Others feel the word is used to limit girls by suggesting such behavior is atypical. In American Tomboys, Renée M. Sentilles explores how the concept of the tomboy developed …
Time for Childhoods
Young Poets and Questions of Agency
Häftad, 2019
709 kr
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Poems written by children are not typically part of the literary canon. Because of cultural biases that frame young people as intellectually and artistically immature, these works are often excluded or dismissed as juvenilia. Rachel Conrad contends that youth-composed poems should be read as …
Case of the Slave-Child, Med
Free Soil in Antislavery Boston
Häftad, 2019
366 kr
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In 1836, an enslaved six-year-old girl Named Med was brought to Boston by a woman from New Orleans who claimed her as property. Learning of the girl's arrival in the city, the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society (BFASS) waged a legal fight to secure her freedom and affirm the free soil of …
Persistence of Slavery
An Economic History of Child Trafficking in Nigeria
Inbunden, 2021
1042 kr
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Despite efforts to abolish slavery throughout Africa in the nineteenth century, the coercive labor systems that constitute "modern slavery" have continued to the present day. To understand why, Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine explores child trafficking, pawning, and marriages in Nigeria's Bight of …
Revolutions at Home
The Origin of Modern Childhood and the German Middle Class
Häftad, 2021
366 kr
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How did we come to imagine what 'ideal childhood' requires? Beginning in the late eighteenth century, German child-rearing radically transformed, and as these innovations in ideology and educational practice spread from middle-class families across European society, childhood came to be seen as a …
Revolutions at Home
The Origin of Modern Childhood and the German Middle Class
Inbunden, 2021
1042 kr
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How did we come to imagine what 'ideal childhood' requires? Beginning in the late eighteenth century, German child-rearing radically transformed, and as these innovations in ideology and educational practice spread from middle-class families across European society, childhood came to be seen as a …
Education of Things
Mechanical Literacy in British Children's Literature, 1762–1860
Av Elizabeth Fabry Massa Hoiem
Häftad, 2024
393 kr
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By the close of the eighteenth century, learning to read and write became closely associated with learning about the material world, and a vast array of games and books from the era taught children how to comprehend the physical world of “things.” Examining a diverse archive of historical …
Education of Things
Mechanical Literacy in British Children's Literature, 1762–1860
Av Elizabeth Fabry Massa Hoiem
Inbunden, 2024
1275 kr
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By the close of the eighteenth century, learning to read and write became closely associated with learning about the material world, and a vast array of games and books from the era taught children how to comprehend the physical world of “things.” Examining a diverse archive of historical …
Negotiating Childhood
French Colonialism and African Children in Senegal, 1848-1940
Häftad, 2026
395 kr
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A groundbreaking study of the meaning of childhood in French colonial Senegal Negotiating Childhood explores how colonial child protection policies and African children’s responses to them produced new ways of defining, measuring, documenting, and experiencing childhood in the French colony of …
Negotiating Childhood
French Colonialism and African Children in Senegal, 1848–1940
Inbunden, 2026
1142 kr
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A groundbreaking study of the meaning of childhood in French colonial SenegalNegotiating Childhood explores how colonial child protection policies and African children’s responses to them produced new ways of defining, measuring, documenting, and experiencing childhood in the French colony of …
Persistence of Slavery
An Economic History of Child Trafficking in Nigeria
Häftad, 2021
366 kr
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Despite efforts to abolish slavery throughout Africa in the nineteenth century, the coercive labor systems that constitute "modern slavery" have continued to the present day. To understand why, Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine explores child trafficking, pawning, and marriages in Nigeria's Bight of …
Vicious Infants
Dangerous Childhoods in Antebellum U.S. Literature
Häftad, 2021
409 kr
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Childhood as scholars often recognize it-innocent, vulnerable, and above all, precious-is anchored in the cultural imagination of the early nineteenth-century United States, when an attitude of child worship drove sentimental politics and literature. But, not all childhoods were defined by love, …
Vicious Infants
Dangerous Childhoods in Antebellum U.S. Literature
Inbunden, 2021
1163 kr
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Childhood as scholars often recognize it-innocent, vulnerable, and above all, precious-is anchored in the cultural imagination of the early nineteenth-century United States, when an attitude of child worship drove sentimental politics and literature. But, not all childhoods were defined by love, …
