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Title:

Designing modern childhoods : history, space, and the material culture of children / edited by Marta Gutman, Ning de Coninck-Smith.

Publisher:

Rutgers University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xvi, 346 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Children--History.
Children--Social conditions.
Children--Social life and customs.
Architecture and children.
Children's paraphernalia.
Child consumers.
Children and adults--History.

Other Authors:

Gutman, Marta.
De Coninck-Smith, Ning.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Series:

The Rutgers series in childhood studies

ISBN:

0813541964 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813541969 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813541956 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780813541952 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007008416

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)