Children in Culture, Revisited : Further Approaches to Childhood

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. Children in Culture Revisited follows on from the 1998 first volume, Children in Culture, to offer further fully inter- and multidisciplinary considerations of childhood as a culturally and historically constructed identity rather than a constant psycho-biological entity. The chapters, all newly written for this collection, serve both as a wide-ranging introduction to theoretical debates on childhood across the disciplines as well as presenting highly innovative research. Written in a clear and jargon-free style, the contributors engage with childhood in art history, film studies, radio studies, literature and children's literature, psychology, education, law and archaeology, demonstrating along the way how these apparently separate disciplines share core concerns focused through their engagements with childhood Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction: Voice, Agency and the Child....Pages 1-17 Gender and Childhood in Neoliberal Times: Contemporary Tropes of the Boychild in Psychological Culture....Pages 18-34 Playthings: Archaeology and the Material Ambiguities of Childhood....Pages 35-54 Homophobic Bullying: A Queer Tale of Childhood Politics....Pages 55-72 Reading the ‘Happy Child’: Normative Discourse in Wellbeing Education....Pages 73-89 Perspectives and Community: Constructions of Autism and Childhood....Pages 90-106 Bothering about Words: Children’s Literature and Ideas of Simplicity and Instruction....Pages 107-125 Irony and the Child....Pages 126-146 Fort/Da: A Reading of Pictures of Innocence by Anne Higonnet....Pages 147-166 Television for Children: Problems of National Specificity and Globalization....Pages 167-185 Out with Romany: Simulating the Natural in BBC Radio’s Children’s Hour 1932–1943....Pages 186-207 Vital Victims: Senses of Children in the Urban....Pages 208-222 Back Matter....Pages 223-232