Children's Literature: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends provides students with high quality critical material on a selection of important classic and contemporary children's books. From Louisa May Alcott's Little Women to J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone to Melvin Burgess's Junk, each has been selected because they still find a favoured place on the bookshelves of today's children and because they are widely studied on university courses. These case studies explore children's literature across a variety of genres and ages, bringing together lively and accessible scholarly essays by leading scholars, some reprinted and others newly commissioned. The collection is supported by detailed introductory material, suggestions for further reading and a colour plate section reproducing covers and illustrations.

Children's Literature: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends

Montgomery, Heather

Watson, Nicola J.

Reference

Bloomsbury Academic

An Introduction to Childhood: Anthropological Perspectives on Children's Lives

In An Introduction to Childhood, Heather Montgomery examines the role children have played within anthropology, how they have been studied by anthropologists and how they have been portrayed and analyzed in ethnographic monographs over the last one hundred and fifty years. 
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<li>Offers a comprehensive overview of childhood from an anthropological perspective</li> <li>Draws upon a wide range of examples and evidence from different geographical areas and belief systems</li> <li>Synthesizes existing literature on the anthropology of childhood, while providing a fresh perspective</li> <li>Engages students with illustrative ethnographies to illuminate key topics and themes</li> </ul>

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Wiley/Blackwell

How to Survive an Earthquake is a Capstone Press publication.

How to Survive an Earthquake (Edge Books Prepare to Survive)

Children's Books

Science, Nature & How It Works

Edge Books

Familiar Violence: A History of Child Abuse

History

Europe

Polity

Modern Babylon?: Prostituting Children in Thailand (Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives, 2)

Child prostitution became one of the key concerns of the international community in the 1990s. World congresses were held, international and national laws were changed and concern over "cemmercially sexually exploited children" rose dramatically. Rarely, however, were the children who worked as prostitutes consulted of questioned in this process, and the voices of these children brought into focus. This book is the first to address the children directly, to examine their daily lives, their motivations and their perceptions of what they do. Based on 15 months of fieldwork in a Thai tourist community that survived through child prostitution, this book draws on anthropological theories on childhood and kinship to contextualize the experiences of this group of Thai child prostitutes and to contrast these with the stereotypes held of them by those outside their community.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Berghahn Books

The violence and neglect suffered by children today is a common subject of media attention and much political hand-wringing, not just in Britain but in other parts of the western world. As yet, however, there has been no attempt to explore this concern historically and look at how the boundary between good and bad parenting may have changed across time. This book attempts to fill the gap by examining the role of violence and neglect in the relations between parents/careers and children from the Bronze Age to the present. By demonstrating how the boundary between acceptable and unacceptable forms of child rearing has shifted through the ages, and not necessarily in a linear direction, it will emphasize how relatively recent our contemporary understanding of good and bad parenting is, and hence the high likelihood that that understanding has not been completely digested. The book is divided into six, multi-authored chapters. The first four deal with different manifestations through the centuries of what would be today considered violence and neglect: 1) child sacrifice; 2) infanticide and abandonment; 3) physical and mental cruelty; and 4) exploitation. The fifth and sixth chapters look at the various violent and nonviolent strategies used by children as coping mechanisms in what to us seems a very harsh world. Each chapter consists of a number of short chronologically or thematically specific extracts, written by nearly 40 historians, sociologists, anthropologists, literary scholars and theologians, and knitted together into a coherent narrative by the editors. Table of Contents Introduction (Laurence Brockliss and Heather Montgomery) Child Sacrifice Child Sacrifice in the Ancient World: Blessings for the Beloved (Francesca Stavrakopoulou) Childhood, Sacrifice and Redemption (James Francis) The Blood Libel – Literary Representations of Ritual Child murder in Medieval England (Elisabeth Dutton) Child Sacrifice in Early Modern Europe: Text, Image and Fantasy (David Maskell) The Blood Libel against the Jews in Poland (Pawel Maciejko) The First World War and Child Sacrifice (Adrian Gregory) Infanticide, Abandonment and Abortion Infanticide, Abandonment and Abortion in the Graeco-Roman to Early Medieval World: Archaeological Perspectives (Sally Crawford) Infanticide in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (Martin Ingram) Infant Abandonment in Europe 1700–1850 (Alysa Levene) Unwanted Children and Adoption in England (Heather Montgomery) Stigmatising and Removing Defective Children from Society: The Influence of Eugenic Thinking (Kieron Sheehy) Abortion in the Twentieth Century in England (Ellie Lee) Physical Cruelty and Socialisation Violence in the ‘Upbringing’ of Ancient Sparta (Nigel Kennell) Corporal Punishment and the Two Christianities (Henrietta Leyser) Abusive Parenting: The Case of Jacques-Louis Ménétra (Laurence Brockliss) Children and Physical Cruelty – The Lockean and Rousseauvian Revolution (Anja Müller) Childhood and Violence in Working-Class England 1800–1870 (Jane Humphries) Corporal Punishment in the English Public School in the Nineteenth Century (Heather Ellis) Children, Cruelty and Corporal Punishment in Twentieth-Century England: The Legal Framework (Stephen Cretney) Child Exploitation Children at Work in Mycenaean Greece (c. 1680–1050 BCE): A Brief Survey (Chrysanthi Gallou) Apprenticeship in Northwest Europe 1300–1850 (Laurence Brockliss) The Royal Navy’s Commissioned Sea Officers 1700–1815 (John Cardwell) The Rural Child Worker (Jane Humphries) What was the Effect of Compulsory Schooling on the Phenomenon of Working Children? (Nicola Sheldon) For Love, not Money: Children’s Unpaid Care Work in Modern Britain (Saul Becker) Violent Children, Youth Enforcers, and Juvenile Delinquents Pupil Violence in the French Classroom 1600–1850 (Laurence Brockliss) Bullying in English Schools and Universities (Laurence Brockliss) Student Violence in Early Modern Cambridge (Alexandra Shepard) Masterless Children during the Thirty Years’ War (Alan Ross) Juvenile Delinquents in Early Nineteenth-Century London (Heather Shore) Juvenile Delinquents in the Post-War Soviet Union (Juliane Fürst) Juvenile Crime in Post-war Britain (Abigail Wills) Coping Strategies and Exit Routes Pavel Morozov: Soviet Hero (Catriona Kelly) Child Runaways in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (George Rousseau) Child Witches in Seventeenth-Century Germany (Lyndal Roper) The War Games of Children in Nazi Germany (Nicholas Stargardt) Child Suicide in Jude the Obscure (Josephine McDonagh) Self Harm – The Curse of Modern Britain (Rosemary Peacocke)

Childhood and Violence in the Western Tradition (Childhood in the Past Monograph)

Brockliss, Laurence

Anthropology

Oxbow Books

The violence and neglect suffered by children today is a common subject of media attention and much political hand-wringing, not just in Britain but in other parts of the western world. As yet, however, there has been no attempt to explore this concern historically and look at how the boundary between good and bad parenting may have changed across time. This book attempts to fill the gap by examining the role of violence and neglect in the relations between parents/careers and children from the Bronze Age to the present. By demonstrating how the boundary between acceptable and unacceptable forms of child rearing has shifted through the ages, and not necessarily in a linear direction, it will emphasize how relatively recent our contemporary understanding of good and bad parenting is, and hence the high likelihood that that understanding has not been completely digested. The book is divided into six, multi-authored chapters. The first four deal with different manifestations through the centuries of what would be today considered violence and neglect: 1) child sacrifice; 2) infanticide and abandonment; 3) physical and mental cruelty; and 4) exploitation. The fifth and sixth chapters look at the various violent and nonviolent strategies used by children as coping mechanisms in what to us seems a very harsh world. Each chapter consists of a number of short chronologically or thematically specific extracts, written by nearly 40 historians, sociologists, anthropologists, literary scholars and theologians, and knitted together into a coherent narrative by the editors. Table of Contents Introduction (Laurence Brockliss and Heather Montgomery) Child Sacrifice Child Sacrifice in the Ancient World: Blessings for the Beloved (Francesca Stavrakopoulou) Childhood, Sacrifice and Redemption (James Francis) The Blood Libel – Literary Representations of Ritual Child murder in Medieval England (Elisabeth Dutton) Child Sacrifice in Early Modern Europe: Text, Image and Fantasy (David Maskell) The Blood Libel against the Jews in Poland (Pawel Maciejko) The First World War and Child Sacrifice (Adrian Gregory) Infanticide, Abandonment and Abortion Infanticide, Abandonment and Abortion in the Graeco-Roman to Early Medieval World: Archaeological Perspectives (Sally Crawford) Infanticide in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (Martin Ingram) Infant Abandonment in Europe 1700–1850 (Alysa Levene) Unwanted Children and Adoption in England (Heather Montgomery) Stigmatising and Removing Defective Children from Society: The Influence of Eugenic Thinking (Kieron Sheehy) Abortion in the Twentieth Century in England (Ellie Lee) Physical Cruelty and Socialisation Violence in the ‘Upbringing’ of Ancient Sparta (Nigel Kennell) Corporal Punishment and the Two Christianities (Henrietta Leyser) Abusive Parenting: The Case of Jacques-Louis Ménétra (Laurence Brockliss) Children and Physical Cruelty – The Lockean and Rousseauvian Revolution (Anja Müller) Childhood and Violence in Working-Class England 1800–1870 (Jane Humphries) Corporal Punishment in the English Public School in the Nineteenth Century (Heather Ellis) Children, Cruelty and Corporal Punishment in Twentieth-Century England: The Legal Framework (Stephen Cretney) Child Exploitation Children at Work in Mycenaean Greece (c. 1680–1050 BCE): A Brief Survey (Chrysanthi Gallou) Apprenticeship in Northwest Europe 1300–1850 (Laurence Brockliss) The Royal Navy’s Commissioned Sea Officers 1700–1815 (John Cardwell) The Rural Child Worker (Jane Humphries) What was the Effect of Compulsory Schooling on the Phenomenon of Working Children? (Nicola Sheldon) For Love, not Money: Children’s Unpaid Care Work in Modern Britain (Saul Becker) Violent Children, Youth Enforcers, and Juvenile Delinquents Pupil Violence in the French Classroom 1600–1850 (Laurence Brockliss) Bullying in English Schools and Universities (Laurence Brockliss) Student Violence in Early Modern Cambridge (Alexandra Shepard) Masterless Children during the Thirty Years’ War (Alan Ross) Juvenile Delinquents in Early Nineteenth-Century London (Heather Shore) Juvenile Delinquents in the Post-War Soviet Union (Juliane Fürst) Juvenile Crime in Post-war Britain (Abigail Wills) Coping Strategies and Exit Routes Pavel Morozov: Soviet Hero (Catriona Kelly) Child Runaways in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (George Rousseau) Child Witches in Seventeenth-Century Germany (Lyndal Roper) The War Games of Children in Nazi Germany (Nicholas Stargardt) Child Suicide in Jude the Obscure (Josephine McDonagh) Self Harm – The Curse of Modern Britain (Rosemary Peacocke)

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