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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...
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...
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