Designing modern childhoods : history, space, and the material culture of children /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gutman, Marta, De Coninck-Smith, Ning
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2008]
Series:Rutgers series in childhood studies.
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Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Good to think with : history, space, and modern childhood / Marta Gutman and Ning de Coninck-Smith
  • Connecting with the landscape : campfires and youth culture at American summer camps, 1890-1950 / Abigail A. Van Slyck
  • A (better) home away from home : the emergence of children's hospitals in an age of women's reform / David C. Sloane
  • Sick children and the thresholds of domesticity : the Dawson-Harrington families at home / Annmarie Adams and Peter Gossage
  • The "Meyers Park experiment" in Auckland, New Zealand, 1913-1916 / Anéne Cusins-Lewer and Julia Gatley
  • A breath of fresh air : open-air schools in Europe / Anne-Marie Châtelet
  • Molding the republican generation : the landscapes of learning in early republican Turkey / Zeynep Kezer
  • Nomadic schools in Senegal : manifestations of integration or ritual performance? / Kristine Juul
  • Adventure playgrounds and postwar reconstruction / Roy Kozlovsky
  • The view from the back step : White children learn about race in Johannesburg's suburban homes / Rebecca Ginsburg
  • Children and the Rosenwald schools of the American South / Mary S. Hoffschwelle
  • The geographies and identities of street girls in Indonesia / Harriot Beazley
  • Coming of age in suburbia : gifting the consumer child / Alison J. Clarke
  • Inscribing Nordic childhoods at McDonald's / Helene Brembeck
  • "Board with the world" : youthful approaches to landscapes and mediascapes / Olav Christensen
  • Migrating media : anime media mixes and the childhood imagination / Mizuko Ito
  • Epilogue: The islanding of children : reshaping the mythical landscapes of childhood / John R. Gillis.