Small Worlds: Children & Adolescents in America, 1850-1950

by West, Elliott

• ISBN13: 9780700605118
• ISBN10: 0700605118
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-05-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas

Summary

These essays are about children and adolescents as influential actors in past societies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Allee Allee Oxen Free: Cultural and Regional Variations	p. 9
Children and Commercial Culture: Moving Pictures in the Early Twentieth Century	p. 14
Children on the Plains Frontier	p. 26
Immigrant Children at School, 1880-1940: A Child's Eye View	p. 42
"Star Struck": Acculturation, Adolescence, and Mexican American Women, 1920-1950	p. 61
Eenie Meanie, Minie Moe: Children, Play, and Society	p. 81
Made, Bought, and Stolen: Toys and the Culture of Childhood	p. 86
Sugar and Spite: The Politics of Doll Play in Nineteenth-Century America	p. 107
The Youngest Fourth Estate: The Novelty Toy Printing Press and Adolescence, 1870-1886	p. 125
The Homefront Children's Popular Culture: Radio, Movies, Comics--Adventure, Patriotism, and Sex-Typing	p. 143
Seen but Not Heard: Children in American Photographs	p. 165
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe / Three, Four, Shut the Door: Children and the Family	p. 203
Children as Chattel	p. 208
Golden Girls: Female Socialization among the Middle Class of Los Angeles, 1880-1910	p. 232
"Ties That Bind and Bonds That Break": Children's Attitudes toward Fathers, 1900-1930	p. 255
"The Only Thing I Wanted Was Freedom": Wayward Girls in New York, 1900-1930	p. 275
Looking Backward: Remembering Childhood	p. 297
Bitter Nostalgia: Recollections of Childhood on the Midwestern Frontier	p. 301
Notes	p. 321
The Contributors	p. 383
Index	p. 385
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