Examines children as creative and critical thinkers who shape
society even as it shapes them Every major political and social
dispute of the twentieth century has been fought on the backs of
our children, from the economic reforms of the progressive era
through the social readjustments of civil rights era and on to the
current explosion of anxieties about everything from the national
debt to the digital revolution. Far from noncombatants whom we seek
to protect from the contamination posed by adult knowledge,
children form the very basis on which we fight over the nature and
values of our society, and over our hopes and fears for the future.
Unfortunately, our understanding of childhood and children has not
kept pace with their crucial and rapidly changing roles in our
culture. Pulling together a range of different thinkers who have
rethought the myths of childhood innocence, The Children's Culture
Reader develops a profile of children as creative and critical
thinkers who shape society even as it shapes them. Representing a
range of thinking from history, psychology, anthropology,
sociology, economics, women's studies, literature, and media
studies, The Children's Culture Reader focuses on issues of
parent-child relations, child labor, education, play, and
especially the relationship of children to mass media and consumer
culture. The contributors include Martha Wolfenstein, Philippe
Aries, Jacqueline Rose, James Kincaid, Lynn Spigel, Valerie
Walkerdine, Ellen Seiter, Annette Kuhn, Eve Sedgwick, Henry Giroux,
and Nancy Scheper-Hughes. Including a groundbreaking introduction
by the editor and a sourcebook section which excerpts a range of
material from popular magazines to child rearing guides from the
past 75 years, The Children's Culture Reader will propel our
understanding of children and childhood into the next century.
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