The Moral Project of Childhood : : Motherhood, Material Life, and Early Children's Consumer Culture / / Daniel Thomas Cook.
Examines the Protestant origins of motherhood and the child consumer Throughout history, the responsibility for children’s moral well-being has fallen into the laps of mothers. In The Moral Project of Childhood, the noted childhood studies scholar Daniel Thomas Cook illustrates how mothers in the ni...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- 1. A Moral Architecture: Protestant Salvation and the Mother- Child Nexus
- 2. Productive Materialities: Making Bourgeois Childhoods through Taste
- 3. From Discipline to Reward: Reworking Children’s Transgressions
- 4. Simplicity, Money, and Property: Moralities, Materialities, and the Didactic Imperative
- 5. Think and Feel like a Child: Pleasure, Subjectivity, and Authority in Early Children’s Consumer Culture
- Conclusion: Legacies of Value
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author