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Tables of Contents for Childhood in America
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xxi
Introduction: Childhood in America: Past and Present
1
8
Paula S. Fass
Mary Ann Mason
PART 1. Childbirth and Infancy
9
68
Before the Birth of One of Her Children
11
1
Anne Bradstreet
Women as Childbearers, 1650--1750
12
4
Catherine M. scholten
Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America
16
4
Judith Walzer Leavitt
Mothers' Sacred Duty: Breast-Feeding Patterns among Middle- and Upper-Class Women in the Antebullum South
20
3
Sally McMillen
Reconstructing Motherhood: The La Leche League in Postwar America
23
6
Lynn Y. Weiner
Amazing Births: Medical History in ``Miracle'' Births
29
3
Charles Petit
Women Gives Birth to Baby Conceived outside the Body
32
3
New York Times
The Eggs, Embryos, and I
35
3
Melissa Moore Bodin
The Egg Women
38
3
Margaret Talbot
Choosing Childlessness
41
3
Newsweek
Thoughts on Child Rearing
44
1
Anne Bradstreet
The Use of Reason in Child Rearing
45
4
John Locke
Toys
49
3
Maria Edgeworth
The Cry
52
2
L. Emmett Holt
Too Much Mother Love
54
2
John B. Watson
The Mother-Child Dyad Revisited: Perceptions of Mothers and Children in Twentieth-Century Child-Rearing Manuals
56
5
Nancy Pottishman Weiss
Child Science and the Rise of the Experts
61
3
Joseph M. Hawes
The Construction of Reality in the Child
64
3
Jean Piaget
Understanding the Infant
67
5
Jerome Kagan
Mothers and Fathers Working and Rearing Children
72
5
T. Berry Brazelton
PART 2. Boys and Girls
77
46
In Reference to Her Children, 23 June, 1659
79
3
Anne Bradstreet
Breeching Little Ffrank
82
1
A. North
Suits and Frocks
83
4
Karin Calvert
American Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century
87
3
Anne Scott MacLeod
Nineteenth-Century Boys' Literature
90
5
Daniel T. Rodgers
Briar Rose
95
3
The Brothers Grimm
Little Women
98
2
Louisa May Alcott
Nancy Drew and the Secret of the Old Clock
100
2
Carolyn Keene
The Sexual Life of the Child
102
2
Sigmund Freud
Feminine Psychology
104
4
Karen Horney
Male and Female: Sex and Temperament
108
2
Margaret Mead
Infantile Sexuality
110
6
Erik H. Erikson
Moral Reasoning in Girls and Boys
116
3
Carol Gilligan
How Schools Shortchange Girls
119
4
American Association of University Women Report
PART 3. Adolescence and Youth
123
78
Courtship and Gender Differences
125
4
Ellen K. Rothman
Children's Voices from the Civil War
129
3
Emmy E. Werner
Adolescence in Historical Perspective
132
7
John Demos
Virginia Demos
The Physiology and Psychology of Adolescence
139
3
G. Stanley Hall
Compulsory Schooling and Parent-Adolescent Relations
142
4
Stephen A. Lassonde
The Natural History of the Gang
146
3
Frederic M. Thrasher
Adolescent Girls in Samoa and America
149
4
Margaret Mead
Identity, Youth, and Crisis
153
8
Erik H. Erikson
Anorexia Nervosa in the 1980s
161
5
Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
166
3
Mary Pipher
Families Started by Teenagers
169
8
Jane Mauldon
Why the Young Kill
177
4
Sharon Begley
Petting
181
2
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Member of the Wedding
183
4
Carsn McCullers
Manchild in the Promised Land
187
4
Claude Brown
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
191
5
Paul Monette
Adulthood? Later, Dude!
196
5
D. James Romero
PART 4. Discipline
201
34
Family Life in Plymouth Colony
203
3
John Demos
Protecting Children from Abusing Masters
206
2
Colonial Documents
Inculcating Self-Discipline
208
3
John Locke
Introducing Children into the Social Order
211
5
Carl N. Degler
A Milder and Warmer Family Government
216
2
Horace Bushnell
Learning Self-Control
218
3
Louisa May Alcott
The Life of a Slave Child
221
2
James W. C. Pennington
Managing Young Children
223
4
Benjamin Spock
Corporal Punishment
227
2
North Carolina Middle District Court
Cracking Down on Kids
229
6
Annette Fuentes
PART 5. Working Children
235
46
Fathers/Masters: Children/Servants
237
4
Mary Ann Mason
Children's Involuntary Labor
241
3
Colonial Documents
Apprentices, Servants, and Child Labor
244
4
Colonial Documents
Children and Manufactures
248
1
Alexander Hamilton
Choosing a Trade
249
2
Benjamin Franklin
Children in the Mills
251
2
August Kohn
Children at Work in the City
253
3
David Nasaw
A Child Worker in the Garment Industry
256
4
Rose Cohen
The Changing Social Value of Children
260
3
Viviana A. Zelizer
Coming of Age in Mississippi
263
2
Anne Moody
Children and the New Deal
265
4
Paula S. Fass
American Children in the Second World War
269
3
Robert William Kirk
Child Labor and the Law
272
3
U.S. Supreme Court
Working Children in Contemporary Chinatown
275
6
Samuel G. Freedman
PART 6. Learning
281
66
Education and the Concept of Childhood
283
3
Philippe Aries
Family Instruction in Early Massachusetts
286
2
Colonial Document
A Puritan Education
288
4
Edmund S. Morgan
Emile
292
2
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Moral Education for Citizenship
294
2
Carl F. Kaestle
The Education of Mary Anna Longstreth
296
2
Harvey J. Graff
Tom Sawyer's Examination Day
298
5
Mark Twain
The Child and the Curriculum
303
4
John Dewey
Testing the IQ of Children
307
6
Paula S. Fass
For the Love of Books
313
5
Richard Wright
School Desegregation
318
3
U.S. Supreme Court
Education in the Post-Sputnik Era
321
5
Diane Ravitch
Children of Crisis
326
5
Robert Coles
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
331
2
Richard Rodriguez
The Quest for Clarity
333
4
Jerome S. Bruner
Children and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
337
2
Albert Shanker
The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
339
Howard Gardner
Mother's Little Helper: Ritalin and Attention Deficit Disorder
243
104
LynNell Hancock
Pat Wingert
Mary Hager
Claudia Kalb
Karen Springen
Dante Chinni
PART 7. Children without Parents
347
68
Kidnapping and White Servitude
349
3
Abbot Emerson Smith
Orphans' Court
352
3
Lois Green Carr
Abraham Lincoln and Sarah Bush Lincoln
355
2
David Herbert Donald
A Childhood in Slavery
357
2
Frederick Douglass
Placing Orphan Children with Farm Families
359
8
Charles Loring Brace
Huckleberry Finn
367
4
Mark Twain
Shadow of the Plantation: Separation and Adoption
371
3
Charles S. Johnson
Surviving the Breakup: How Children Respond to Divorce
374
7
Judith S. Wallerstein
Joane Berlin Kelly
Solomon's Children: The New Biologism, Psychological Parenthood, Attachment Theory, and the Best Interests Standard
381
6
Arlene Skolnick
Fit to Be a Parent?
387
4
Mary Ann Mason
Lesbian Parents in Custody Disputes
391
4
California Court of Appeal
Surrogacy and Child Custody
395
4
California Supreme Court
Teenage Voices from Foster Care
399
5
Autobiographical Documents
Foster Care and the Politics of Compassion
404
6
Nanette Schorr
Orphanage Revival Gains Ground
410
5
Katharine Q. Seelye
PART 8. The Vulnerable Child
415
64
Waifs of the City's Slums
417
5
Jacob A. Riis
Preserving the Home
422
2
Conference Document
The Mothers' Aid Movement
424
3
Documents from the Child Welfare Movement
Infant Mortality
427
5
Charles R. King
Polio
432
4
U.S. News & World Report
``Welcome to Willowbrook''
436
2
Geraldo Rivera
Kidnapping in Contemporary America
438
6
Paula S. Fass
The Last Frontier in Child Abuse
444
5
Suzanne M. Sgroi
By Silence Betrayed: The Sexual Abuse of Children in America
449
4
John Crewdson
Miscounting Social Ills
453
3
Neil Gilbert
Psychiatric Hospitals for Juveniles?
456
3
Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Coupple Held in Beating of Daughter
459
3
Todd S. Purdum
A Glimpse into a Hell for Helpless Infants
462
4
New York Times
An Infant's Death, an Ancient ``Why?''
466
3
Jan Hoffman
Media Violence and Children
469
4
Hillary Rodham Clinton
A Teenage Voice from Foster Care
473
6
Autobiographical Document
PART 9. Sexuality
479
56
The Turn of the Screw
481
7
Henry James
Child-Loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture
488
3
James R. Kincaid
Polymorphous Perversity
491
3
Sigmund Freud
Delinquent Daughters: The Age-of-Consent Campaign
494
5
Mary E. Odem
Coming of Age in Samoa
499
1
Margaret Mead
Preadolescent Sexuality
500
11
Kinsey Institute for Sex Research
Lolita
511
4
Vladimir Nabokov
The Disappearance of Childhood: The Total Disclosure Medium
515
3
Neil Postman
The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory
518
3
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
The Unraveling of a Monstrous Secret
521
3
Marla Williams
Dee Norton
On Prison Computer, Files to Make Parents Shiver
524
6
Nina Bernstein
The Politics of Parental Notification
530
5
Maris A. Vinovskis
PART 10. The Child and the State
535
82
The Family in the Social Order
537
2
Colonial Document
The Child-Saving Movement
539
4
Jacob A. Riis
The Progressive-Era Transformation of Child Protection, 1900--1920
543
6
Linda Gordon
The State as Superparent
549
6
Mary Ann Mason
The Children's Bureau
555
4
Government Documents
The Establishment of Juvenile Courts
559
7
Susan Tiffin
Juvenile Court and the Artistry of Approach
566
4
Ben B. Lindsey
Rube Borough
The Children's Charter
570
3
White House Conference Document
The First Amendment in School
573
5
U.S. Supreme Court
Juveniles' Right to Due Process
578
7
U.S. Supreme Court
Punishing Very Young Criminals
585
2
Peter Fimrite
Vote for Eighteen-Year-Olds: What Justices Said on Both Sides
587
4
U.S. News & World Report
The Right to Vote
591
1
U.S. Constitution
Now That the Voting Age Is Lower...
592
2
U.S. News & World Report
Contraception
594
2
U.S. Supreme Court
Abortion
596
3
U.S. Supreme Court
Mental Health and the Rights of the Child
599
4
U.S. Supreme Court
Visitation Rights
603
6
Illinois Appellate Court
A Voice for the Child?
609
3
Mary Ann Mason
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
612
5
UN Document
PART 11. The Child's World
617
87
The Material Culture of Early Childhood: The Upright Child
619
6
Karin Calvert
My Life in the South
625
2
Jacob Stroyer
A Russian Jewish Girlhood on the Lower East Side
627
5
Rose Cohen
Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America
632
5
Mary Paik Lee
Call It Sleep
637
5
Henry Roth
Young Lonigan
642
4
James T. Farrell
Growing Up Native American: The Language We Know
646
3
Simon Ortiz
Down These Mean Streets
649
4
Piri Thomas
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
653
4
Maya Angelou
China Boy
657
6
Gus Lee
Talking to High Monks in the Snow: An Asian American Odyssey
663
3
Lydia Yuri Minatoya
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
666
3
Mark Twain
The Days Gone By
669
1
James Whitcomb Riley
The Wizard of Oz
670
3
L. Frank Baum
Anne of Green Gables
673
3
L. M. Montgomery
The Sneetches
676
3
Dr. Seuss
Snozzcumbers
679
5
Roald Dahl
American Children and Their Books
684
6
Gillian Avery
Children in Fiction and Fact
690
4
Anne Scott MacLeod
Kids' Stuff: Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood
694
3
Gary Cross
What Makes Nick Tick: Nickelodeon Is a Sensibility, a World, an All-Empowering Club. It's CNN for Children
697
3
Don Steinberg
Children's Literary Voices
700
4
Merlyn's Pen
Sources
704
11
Index
715
10
About the Editors
725