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Female Genital Cutting
Elizabeth Heger Boyle
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Female Genital Cutting Introduction Female genital cutting (FGCs; also known as female circumcision or female genital mutilation) affects milli...
Feral and "Wild" Children
Michael Newton
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Feral and “Wild” Children Introduction The term feral children has been taken as applying to those who have endured three very different kinds...
Food
Deborah Albon
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Food Introduction The area of “children and food” contains work from a range of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, dietetics, and...
Freud, Anna
Nick Midgley
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Anna Freud Introduction Anna Freud (b. 1895–d. 1982) was a child analyst and the youngest daughter of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanal...
Freud, Sigmund
Todd Dufresne
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Sigmund Freud Introduction Sigmund Freud was born in Moravia (now the Czech Republic) on 6 May 1856, spent most of his life in Vienna, Austria...
Friends and Peers: Psychological Perspectives
Barry Schneider
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Friends and Peers: Psychological Perspectives Introduction In the first years of the formal study of psychology, from the late 19th century th...
Gay and Lesbian Parents
Anna Malmquist, Karin Zetterqvist Nelson
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Gay and Lesbian Parents Introduction Research on gay and lesbian parenthood is diverse, covering a wide range of topics approached from differ...
Gender and Childhood
Anna Mae Duane
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Gender and Childhood Introduction The organization of this bibliography reflects the evolving, often contradictory state of scholarly work on ...
Globalization
Elizabeth Chin
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Globalization Introduction Globalization is generally defined as a set of processes and contexts emerging out of the nexus of capitalism, tech...
Hall, G. Stanley
Don Romesburg
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
G. Stanley Hall Introduction Granville Stanley Hall (b. 1844–d. 1924) was arguably the father of developmental psychology in the United States...
Hispanic Childhoods (U.S.)
Alejandro E. Brice
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Hispanic Childhoods (United States) Introduction Hispanics, or Latinos (these two terms are used interchangeably throughout this article), are...
History of Childhood in America
Susan Miller
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
History of Childhood in America Introduction The history of childhood and youth is a relatively new field in American history that has grown e...
Infancy and Ethnography
Tobias Hecht
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Infancy and Ethnography Introduction The study of infancy remains mostly the province of the specialists: developmental psychologists, pediatri...
Labor, Child
Mary Lorena Kenny
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Child Labor Introduction Approaches to research on child labor and the development of appropriate action to combat it have shifted in the past ...
Latin America
Tobias Hecht
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Latin America Introduction Children in Latin America have gradually come to attract the attention of researchers from a number of fields. Histo...
Learning, Language
Amy Paugh
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Language Learning Introduction The study of language learning is central to understanding how children learn to communicate and become competen...
Literary Representations of Childhood
Monica Flegel
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Literary Representations of Childhood Introduction The child looms large in the literary imagination, both as a character in her or his own rig...
Literature, Children's
Peter Hunt
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Children’s Literature Introduction The study of children’s literature as an academic discipline has developed since the 1980s from its roots in...
Maltreatment, Child
Jill E. Korbin
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Child Maltreatment Introduction Child maltreatment has been described throughout history and across cultures. The term “maltreatment” has come ...
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...
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