Synopses & Reviews
Children in Culture, Revisited follows on from the first volume, Children in Culture, and is composed of a range of chapters, newly written for this collection, which offer further fully inter- and multidisciplinary considerations of childhood as a culturally and historically constructed identity rather than a constant psycho-biological entity.
About the Author
KARIN LESNIK-OBERSTEIN is Reader in Critical Theory and the Director of the 'Graduate Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, Media' (CIRCL) at the University of Reading, UK. Recent publications include (as editor and contributor) The Last Taboo: Women and Body Hair (2006) and the monograph On Having an Own Child: Reproductive Technologies and the Cultural Construction of Childhood (2008).
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction: Voice, Agency, and the Child; K.Lesnik-Oberstein
Gender and Childhood in Neoliberal Times: Contemporary Tropes of the Boychild in Psychological Culture; E.Burman
Playthings: Archaeology and the Material Ambiguities of Childhood; E.C.Casella
Homophobic Bullying: A Queer Tale of Childhood Politics; D.Monk
Reading the 'Happy Child': Normative Discourse in Wellbeing Education; H.Smith
Perspectives and Community: Constructions of Autism and Childhood; H.Ainslie
Bothering About Words: Children's Literature and Ideas of Simplicity and Instruction; S.Spooner
The Child and Irony; S.Walsh
Fort/ Da: A Reading of Picturing Innocence by Anne Higonnet; N.Cocks
Television for Children: Problems of National Specificity and Globalisation; J.Bignell
Out with Romany: Simulating the Natural in BBC Radio's Children's Hour 1932-1943; S.Flynn
Vital Victims: Senses of Children in the Urban J.Bavidge
Selected Bibliography
Index