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Masculinities/Boyhood

Diederik Janssen

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Masculinities/Boyhood Introduction The intersecting of masculinity studies and childhood studies during the past two decades has been expansive...

Media Culture, Children's

Chris Richards, Rebekah Willett

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Children’s Media Culture Introduction The nature of childhood has been widely debated in a variety of academic fields—history, sociology, psyc...

Migration

Charles Watters

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Migration Introduction There is a large and disparate range of reading available on the subject of migration. This is reflective of the subject...

Miscarriage

Lara Freidenfelds

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2013-03-19

Miscarriage Introduction Miscarriage is medically defined as a pregnancy loss in approximately the first half of pregnancy (twenty weeks or so...

Mothers

Terri Apter

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Mothers Introduction “Mother” is a female parent. The term has powerful associations, and its meanings extend far beyond this specific designat...

Music and Babies

Beatriz Ilari

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2013-03-19

Music and Babies Introduction It was not until the late 20th century that the systematic study of music in babyhood gained momentum. With the ...

Organizations, Nongovernmental

Anna Holzscheiter

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Nongovernmental Organizations Introduction Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are now considered to be the linchpin of grassroots, local, nat...

Orphans

Cheryl Nixon

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2013-04-22

Orphans Introduction Bereft of parents, the orphan is a child who requires protection, care, and guidance. The orphan thus reveals his or her ...

Parenting

Caroline J. Gatrell

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Parenting Introduction Research on parenting, and especially mothering, has been a focus of sociologies and psychologies of parenting and family...

Peer Culture

William A. Corsaro

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Peer Culture Introduction Most of the early work on peer culture focuses on adolescents, with a primary concern on outcomes (positive and negat...

Play

Anna Beresin

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Play Introduction Play is the language of childhood, a complex, social, and multimodal process. Definitions abound but are often found lacking....

Prostitution and Pornography, Child

Heather Montgomery

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Child Prostitution and Pornography Introduction The subjects of child prostitution and pornography have been approached from a number of perspe...

Psychological Approaches to Advertising and Marketing

Brian Young

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2013-04-22

Psychological Approaches to Advertising and Marketing Introduction The relationship between advertising/marketing and children has been explor...

Queer Theory and Childhood

Diederik Janssen

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Queer Theory and Childhood Introduction Emergent interfacing between queer studies and childhood studies has amounted to a playing field simult...

Race and Ethnicity

Anoop Nayak

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Race and Ethnicity Introduction It is widely accepted that race is a fictitious category used to divide the human population in ways that may b...

Refugee and Displaced Children

Charles Watters

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Refugee and Displaced Children Introduction There is a large and disparate range of reading available on the subject of refugee and displaced c...

Rights, Children's

Heather Montgomery

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Children’s Rights Introduction Children’s rights are an integral part of human rights; children have rights because they are human. This has be...

Russia

Andy Byford

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Russia Introduction The multidisciplinary study of “childhood” as a distinct social, anthropological, and historical phenomenon is still in the...

Sexuality

Mary Jane Kehily

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Sexuality Introduction Childhood and sexuality is a contested subject area that has been researched from different perspectives across a range ...

Siblings

Ashley Maynard

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Siblings Introduction Most children in the world grow up with one or more siblings. Interactions with siblings serve important functions in deve...

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