"Children are at the heart of popular and public debates in North America and Europe about the culture of public space. On the one hand there is increased anxiety about children's vulnerability to stranger danger on the other there is a rising tide of fear about out of control a…
This book explores the links between food, visual and literary culture in the nineteenth-century United States to reveal how eating produces political subjects by justifying the social discourses that create bodily meaning. Using an archive of children's literature, architectura…
Dramatically illustrates how the sentimentalizing of children led to the creation of the emotionally "priceless" child.
Examining the role of political culture and penal populism in the response to the emotive subject of child-on-child homicide this title compares the differing responses of English and Norwegian criminal justice systems to two high profile cases those of the killers of James Bulg…
Pokemón broke the mould. As the first Japanese cultural product to enjoy worldwide success, it was also the first to break the Western monopoly on the export of popular culture. This book looks at how, & why, it happened, & also why Pokémon has now faded as a cultural force.
Pokemón broke the mould. As the first Japanese cultural product to enjoy worldwide success, it was also the first to break the Western monopoly on the export of popular culture. This book looks at how, & why, it happened, & also why Pokémon has now faded as a cultural force.
Crafted to meet the day-to-day needs of school psychologists and other practitioners working with children, this is the most concise, practical, and up-to-date book of its kind. The author offers guidelines for interviewing children of different ages/m-/as well as their parents …
"Crafted to meet the day-to-day needs of school psychologists and other practitioners working with children, this is the most concise, practical, and up-to-date book of its kind. The expert author offers guidelines for interviewing children of different ages - as well as their p…
Child Care and Culture examines parenthood, infancy, and early childhood in an African community, raising provocative questions about "normal" child care. Comparing the Gusii people of Kenya with the American white middle class, the authors show how divergent cultural priorities…
Child Care and Culture examines parenthood, infancy, and early childhood in an African community, raising provocative questions about "normal" child care. Comparing the Gusii people of Kenya with the American white middle class, the authors show how divergent cultural priorities…