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Endangered Daughters
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 63.95This unique and groundbreaking book seeks to re-focus gender debate onto the issue of daughter discrimination - a phenomenon still hidden and unacknowledged across the world. It asks the controversial question of why millions of girls do not appear to be surviving to adulthood in contemporary Asia. In the first major study available of this emotive... more...
Unequal Childhoods
University of California Press 2003; US$ 15.95Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families, Unequal Childhoods explores this fact, offering a picture of childhood today. more...
Awakening Children's Minds
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 17.99With many examples, this book examines thinking about child rearing and early education. more...
The Cute and the Cool
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 49.99The cute child -- spunky, yet dependent, naughty but nice -- is largely a 20th-century invention. In this book, Gary Cross examines how that look emerged in American popular culture and how the cute turned into the cool, seemingly its opposite, in stories and games. more...
We Don't Play with Guns Here
McGraw-Hill Education 2007; US$ 210.00War, weapon and superhero play has been banned in many early childhood settings for over 30 years. This book explores the development and application of a zero tolerance approach through the eyes of children and practitioners. The author challenges the key rationale for linking aggressive play themes to violent behaviour. She examines play where children... more...
Idolising Children
University of NSW Press 2007; US$ 25.95Obsessed with our own youth and wanting perfect, genius children who live in a world of designer clothes and toys, this title says it's time for us to find new ways of parenting and a new kind of childhood. It asks us to respect children and allow them to experience childhood with all its ups and downs. more...
Resilience in Children, Families, and Communities
Springer 2006; US$ 84.99Despite the numerous benefits derived from major technological and medical innovations of the past century, we continue to live in a world rife with significant social problems and challenges. Children continue to be born into lives of poverty; others must confront daily their parent's mental illness or substance abuse; still others live amid chronic... more...
Theorizing the Sexual Child in Modernity
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 90.00This ground-breaking work provides the first history of ideas about the sexual child in modernity. Beginning with twenty-first century panics about sexualization, the authors address why the sexual child excites such powerful emotions in the Anglophone west. more...
Young Children, Parents and Professionals
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 63.95As early year education and very early child care increase, parents and professionals face many difficult questions. What are the effects of early education on children? Are parents fulfilling their roles? What should teachers' roles be? Seldom asked are more basic questions: What are the fundamental needs of young children? Or parents? Or professionals?... more...
Contesting Childhood
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 47.50Wyness argues for new, more effective conceptions of childhood, derived from analysis of recent social policy. more...









