Children in Culture
Approaches to Childhood
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Introduction
Children in Culture is one of the first fully multi- and interdisciplinary collections of essays on theoretical approaches to childhood and formulates and presents new and exciting ideas about the construction of childhood as a cultural identity. The ten original chapters have been written especially for this volume by some of the most eminent writers on childhood in their fields: psychology (Valerie Walkerdine; Rex and Wendy Stainton Rogers), history (Jenny Bourne Taylor; Kimberly Reynolds; Paul Yates), critical theory (Erica Burman), literary criticism (Margarida Morgado; Sara Thornton), children's literature criticism (Karin Lesnik-Oberstein; Stephen Thomson), and film and drama theory (Joe Kelleher).
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childhood children critical theory culture drama film identity novel psychology
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- DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230376205
- Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1998
- Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
- eBook Packages Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection
- Print ISBN 978-0-333-71149-1
- Online ISBN 978-0-230-37620-5
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