Children's Childhoods: Observed And Experienced

by Mayall,Berry; Mayall,Berry

• ISBN13: 9780750703697
• ISBN10: 0750703695
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-01-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Explores the social status of children, through consideration of their positioning in a range of social settings and in sociological theory.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Women and Children First and Last: Parallels and Differences between Children's and Women's Studies	p. 13
Children's Rights	p. 33
Researching Children's Rights to Integrity	p. 45
The Family- A Refuge from Demands or an Arena for the Exercise of Power and Control- Children's Fictions on Their Future Families	p. 63
Television and the Definition of Childhood	p. 79
Creating the Capable Body: Discourses about Ability and Effort in Primary and Secondary School Studies	p. 97
Children in Action at Home and School	p. 114
Responsible Children? Aspects of Children's Work and Employment outside School in Contemporary UK	p. 128
Opportunities for Childhoods in Late Twentieth Century Britain	p. 144
Childhood as a Mode of Production	p. 153
Notes on Contributors	p. 167
References	p. 169
Index	p. 180
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