Small Worlds: Children & Adolescents in America, 1850-1950
by West, ElliottFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1992-05-01
Publisher(s): Univ Pr of Kansas
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Summary
These essays are about children and adolescents as influential actors in past societies.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Allee Allee Oxen Free: Cultural and Regional Variations | p. 9 |
| Children and Commercial Culture: Moving Pictures in the Early Twentieth Century | p. 14 |
| Children on the Plains Frontier | p. 26 |
| Immigrant Children at School, 1880-1940: A Child's Eye View | p. 42 |
| "Star Struck": Acculturation, Adolescence, and Mexican American Women, 1920-1950 | p. 61 |
| Eenie Meanie, Minie Moe: Children, Play, and Society | p. 81 |
| Made, Bought, and Stolen: Toys and the Culture of Childhood | p. 86 |
| Sugar and Spite: The Politics of Doll Play in Nineteenth-Century America | p. 107 |
| The Youngest Fourth Estate: The Novelty Toy Printing Press and Adolescence, 1870-1886 | p. 125 |
| The Homefront Children's Popular Culture: Radio, Movies, Comics--Adventure, Patriotism, and Sex-Typing | p. 143 |
| Seen but Not Heard: Children in American Photographs | p. 165 |
| One, Two, Buckle My Shoe / Three, Four, Shut the Door: Children and the Family | p. 203 |
| Children as Chattel | p. 208 |
| Golden Girls: Female Socialization among the Middle Class of Los Angeles, 1880-1910 | p. 232 |
| "Ties That Bind and Bonds That Break": Children's Attitudes toward Fathers, 1900-1930 | p. 255 |
| "The Only Thing I Wanted Was Freedom": Wayward Girls in New York, 1900-1930 | p. 275 |
| Looking Backward: Remembering Childhood | p. 297 |
| Bitter Nostalgia: Recollections of Childhood on the Midwestern Frontier | p. 301 |
| Notes | p. 321 |
| The Contributors | p. 383 |
| Index | p. 385 |
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