Reinventing Childhood After World War II / / ed. by Michael Grossberg, Paula S. Fass.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History
• MitwirkendeR: Fass, Paula S.,; Grossberg, Michael,; Lassonde, Stephen,; Lindenmeyer, Kriste,; Mason, Mary Ann,; Mintz, Steven,; Sandin, Bengt,
• HerausgeberIn: Fass, Paula S.,; Grossberg, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)

In the Western world, the modern view of childhood as a space protected from broader adult society first became a dominant social vision during the nineteenth century. Many of the West's sharpest portrayals of children in literature and the arts emerged at that time in both Europe and the Unite...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• 1. The Child-Centered Family? New Rules in Postwar America
• 2. Liberation and Caretaking: Fighting over Children's Rights in Postwar America
• 3. The Changing Face of Children's Culture
• 4. Ten Is the New Fourteen: Age Compression and "Real" Childhood
• 5. Whose Child? Parenting and Custody in the Postwar Period
• 6. Children, the State, and the American Dream
• 7. Children and the Swedish Welfare State: From Different to Similar
• Notes
• List of Contributors
• Index
• Acknowledgments