Like the occupants of the children's table at a family dinner,
scholars working in childhood studies can seem sidelined from the
"adult" labor of humanities scholarship. "The Children's Table"
brings together scholars from architecture, philosophy, law, and
literary and cultural criticism to provide an overview of the
innovative work being done in childhood studies--a transcript of
what is being said at the children's table. Together, these
scholars argue for rethinking the academic seating arrangement in a
way that acknowledges the centrality of childhood to the work of
the humanities.
The figure we now recognize as a child was created in tandem with
forms of modernity that the Enlightenment generated and that the
humanities are now working to rethink. Thus the growth of childhood
studies allows for new approaches to some of the most important and
provocative issues in humanities scholarship: the viability of the
social contract, the definition of agency, the performance of
identity, and the construction of gender, sexuality, and race.
Because defining childhood is a means of defining and distributing
power and obligation, studying childhood requires a radically
altered approach to what constitutes knowledge about the human
subject.
The diverse essays in "The Children's Table" share a unifying
premise: to include the child in any field of study realigns the
shape of that field, changing the terms of inquiry and forcing a
different set of questions. Taken as a whole, the essays argue
that, at this key moment in the state of the humanities, rethinking
the child is both necessary and revolutionary.
Contributors: Annette Ruth Appell, Sophie Bell, Robin Bernstein,
Sarah Chinn, Lesley Ginsberg, Lucia Hodgson, Susan Honeyman, Roy
Kozlovsky, James Marten, Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Carol Singley, Lynne
Vallone, John Wall.
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