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Race in the Schoolyard
Negotiating the Color Line in Classrooms and Communities
Häftad, 2003
330 kr
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"Race in the Schoolyard is a wonderful book for social scientists studying race, education, and childhood studies. The book showcases the talents of a gifted fieldworker whose theoretically rich work sits on the cutting edge of a growing body of scholarship examining the social worlds of children. …
Children of the Rainforest
Shaping the Future in Amazonia
Häftad, 2023
357 kr
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Children of the Rainforest explores the lives of children growing up in a time of radical change in Amazonia. The book draws on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with the Matses, a group of hunter-gatherer forest dwellers who have lived in voluntary isolation until fairly recently. Having worked …
In Sickness and in Play
Children Coping with Chronic Illness
Häftad, 2003
405 kr
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For children who live with a chronic illness, each day is filled with endless treatments, painful symptoms, confusion, and embarrassment. How can an eight-year old girl understand diabetes let alone explain to her schoolmates why she has to leave class to have her blood tested? How can the father …
At Play in Belfast
Children's Folklore and Identities in Northern Ireland
Häftad, 2003
456 kr
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Donna M. Lanclos writes about children on the school playgrounds of working-class Belfast, Northern Ireland, using their own words to show how they shape their social identities. The notion that children's voices and perspectives must be included in a work about childhood is central to the book. …
Rethinking Childhood
Av Peter B. Pufall, Richard P. Unsworth
Häftad, 2003
394 kr
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Being a child in American society can be problematic. Twenty percent of American children live in poverty, parents are divorcing at high rates, and educational institutions are not always fulfilling their goals. Against this backdrop, children are often patronized or idealized by adults. Rarely do …
Armies of the Young
Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism
Häftad, 2005
405 kr
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Children have served as soldiers throughout history. They fought in the American Revolution, the Civil War, and in both world wars. They served as uniformed soldiers, camouflaged insurgents, and even suicide bombers. Indeed, the first U.S. soldier to be killed by hostile fire in the Afghanistan war …
Imagined Orphans
Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London
Inbunden, 2006
800 kr
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With his dirty, tattered clothes and hollowed-out face, Oliver Twist is the enduring symbol of the young indigent spilling out of orphanages and haunting the streets of late-nineteenth-century London. Although poor children were often portrayed as real-life Oliver Twists-either orphaned or …
Girls in Trouble with the Law
Häftad, 2006
405 kr
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In Girls in Trouble with the Law, sociologist Laurie Schaffner takes us inside juvenile detention centers and explores the worlds of the young women incarcerated within. Across the nation, girls of color are disproportionately represented in detention facilities, and many report having experienced …
Growing Girls
The Natural Origins of Girls' Organizations in America
Häftad, 2007
428 kr
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In the early years of the twentieth century, Americans began to recognize adolescence as a developmental phase distinct from both childhood and adulthood. This awareness, however, came fraught with anxiety about the debilitating effects of modern life on adolescents of both sexes. For boys, …
Designing Modern Childhoods
History, Space, and the Material Culture of Children
Av Marta Gutman, Ning de Coninck-Smith
Häftad, 2008
400 kr
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With the advent of urbanization in the early modern period, the material worlds of children were vastly altered. In industrialized democracies, a broad consensus developed that children should not work, but rather learn and play in settings designed and built with these specific purposes in mind. …
Risky Lessons
Sex Education and Social Inequality
Häftad, 2008
394 kr
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Curricula in U.S. public schools are often the focus of heated debate, and few subjects spark more controversy than sex education. While conservatives argue that sexual abstinence should be the only message, liberals counter that an approach that provides comprehensive instruction and helps young …
Pleasures and Perils
Girls' Sexuality in a Caribbean Consumer Culture
Av Debra Curtis
Inbunden, 2009
1029 kr
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Pleasures and Perils follows a group of young girls living on Nevis, an island society in the Eastern Caribbean. In this provocative ethnography, Debra Curtis examines their sexuality in gripping detail: why do Nevisian girls engage in sexual activity at such young ages? Where is the line between …
Pleasures and Perils
Girls' Sexuality in a Caribbean Consumer Culture
Av Debra Curtis
Häftad, 2009
394 kr
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Pleasures and Perils follows a group of young girls living on Nevis, an island society in the Eastern Caribbean. In this provocative ethnography, Debra Curtis examines their sexuality in gripping detail: why do Nevisian girls engage in sexual activity at such young ages? Where is the line between …
Children and Childhood in World Religions
Primary Sources and Texts
Av Don S. Browning, Marcia J. Bunge
Inbunden, 2009
968 kr
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While children figure prominently in religious traditions, few books have directly explored the complex relationships between children and religion. This is the first book to examine the theme of children in major religions of the world.Each of six chapters, edited by world-class scholars, focuses …
Translating Childhoods
Immigrant Youth, Language, and Culture
Av Marjorie Faulstich Orellana
Inbunden, 2009
1462 kr
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Though the dynamics of immigrant family life has gained attention from scholars, little is known about the younger generation, often considered "invisible." Translating Childhoods, a unique contribution to the study of immigrant youth, brings children to the forefront by exploring the "work" they …
Translating Childhoods
Immigrant Youth, Language, and Culture
Av Marjorie Faulstich Orellana
Häftad, 2009
389 kr
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Though the dynamics of immigrant family life has gained attention from scholars, little is known about the younger generation, often considered "invisible." Translating Childhoods, a unique contribution to the study of immigrant youth, brings children to the forefront by exploring the "work" they …
Between Good and Ghetto
African American Girls and Inner-City Violence
Av Nikki Jones
Häftad, 2009
340 kr
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With an outward gaze focused on a better future, Between Good and Ghetto reflects the social world of inner city African American girls and how they manage threats of personal violence. Drawing on personal encounters, traditions of urban ethnography, Black feminist thought, gender studies, and …
Contesting Childhood
Autobiography, Trauma, and Memory
Av Kate Douglas
Häftad, 2010
508 kr
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The late 1990s and early 2000s witnessed a surge in the publication and popularity of autobiographical writings about childhood. Linking literary and cultural studies, Contesting Childhood draws on a varied selection of works from a diverse range of authorsùfrom first-time to experienced writers. …
We Fight to Win
Inequality and the Politics of Youth Activism
Inbunden, 2009
1059 kr
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In an adult-dominated society, teenagers are often shut out of participation in politics. We Fight to Win offers a compelling account of young people's attempts to get involved in community politics, and documents the battles waged to form youth movements and create social change in schools and …
We Fight to Win
Inequality and the Politics of Youth Activism
Häftad, 2009
389 kr
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In an adult-dominated society, teenagers are often shut out of participation in politics. We Fight to Win offers a compelling account of young people's attempts to get involved in community politics, and documents the battles waged to form youth movements and create social change in schools and …
Girlhood
A Global History
Av Jennifer Helgren, Colleen Vasconcellos
Häftad, 2012
535 kr
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Girlhood, interdisciplinary and global in source, scope, and methodology, examines the centrality of girlhood in shaping women's lives. Scholars study how age and gender, along with a multitude of other identities, work together to influence the historical experience.Spanning a broad time frame …
Raising Your Kids Right
Children's Literature and American Political Conservatism
Inbunden, 2010
1945 kr
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Dr. Seuss's classic character the Lorax has delighted children for decades while passing along a powerful message about environmental responsibility. The book's young readers, and their parents, would likely be surprised by the emergence of a new character, Truax, a kindly logger created by a …
Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work
Av Michael Bourdillon, Deborah Levison m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1462 kr
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Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work, authored by an interdisciplinary team of experts, incorporates recent theoretical advances and experiences to explore the place of labor in children's lives and development.This groundbreaking book considers international policies governing children's work and …
Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work
Av Michael Bourdillon, Deborah Levison m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
430 kr
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Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work, authored by an interdisciplinary team of experts, incorporates recent theoretical advances and experiences to explore the place of labor in children's lives and development.This groundbreaking book considers international policies governing children's work and …
Disrupted Childhoods
Children of Women in Prison
Häftad, 2011
405 kr
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Millions of children in the United States have a parent who is incarcerated and a growing number of these nurturers are mothers. Disrupted Childhoods explores the issues that arise from a mother's confinement and provides first-person accounts of the experiences of children with moms behind bars. …
Raising Your Kids Right
Children's Literature and American Political Conservatism
Häftad, 2011
508 kr
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Dr. Seuss's classic character the Lorax has delighted children for decades while passing along a powerful message about environmental responsibility. The book's young readers, and their parents, would likely be surprised by the emergence of a new character, Truax, a kindly logger created by a …
Children and Childhood in World Religions
Primary Sources and Texts
Av Don S. Browning, Marcia J. Bunge
Häftad, 2011
496 kr
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While children figure prominently in religious traditions, few books have directly explored the complex relationships between children and religion. This is the first book to examine the theme of children in major religions of the world.Each of six chapters, edited by world-class scholars, focuses …
Their Time Has Come
Youth with Disabilities on the Cusp of Adulthood
Häftad, 2012
350 kr
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The lives of youth with disabilities have changed radically in the past fifty years. Youth who are coming of age right now are the first generation to receive educational services throughout childhood and adolescence. Disability policies have opened up opportunities to youth, and they have …
Learning the Hard Way
Masculinity, Place, and the Gender Gap in Education
Inbunden, 2012
1506 kr
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An avalanche of recent newspapers, weekly newsmagazines, scholarly journals, and academic books has helped to spark a heated debate by publishing warnings of a “boy crisis” in which male students at all academic levels have begun falling behind their female peers. In Learning the Hard Way, Edward …
Learning the Hard Way
Masculinity, Place, and the Gender Gap in Education
Häftad, 2012
417 kr
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An avalanche of recent newspapers, weekly newsmagazines, scholarly journals, and academic books has helped to spark a heated debate by publishing warnings of a “boy crisis” in which male students at all academic levels have begun falling behind their female peers. In Learning the Hard Way, Edward …
