Designing Modern Childhoods

• Hardcover | Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
• In industrialized democracies, a broad consensus developed that children should not work, but rather learn and play in settings designed and built wit... Lees meer

At Play in Belfast

• Hardcover | Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
• Writing about children on the school playgrounds of working-class Belfast, Northern Ireland, Donna M. Lanclos uses their own words to show how they sh... Lees meer

Growing Girls

Susan A Miller

• Hardcover | Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
• In the early years of the twentieth century, Americans began to recognize adolescence as a developmental phase distinct from both childhood and adulth... Lees meer

Children and Childhood in American Religions

• Hardcover | Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
• Whether First Communion or bar mitzvah, religious traditions play a central role in the lives of American children. This book presents a collection of... Lees meer

Contesting Childhood

• Hardcover | Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
• The late 1990s and early 2000s witnessed a surge in the publication and popularity of autobiographical writings about childhood. Linking literary and ... Lees meer

In Sickness and in Play

Cindy Dell Clark

• Hardcover | Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
• The author's 46 interviews with the families of children with chronic illness gives an understanding of how the children comprehend their illnesses an... Lees meer