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Recommended Readings
Demography, Theory, and General Texts with an Overview of the
Field
Children's Defense Fund, “The State of America's Children Yearbook”
(Washington, DC: Children's Defense Fund).
Paula S. Fass, ed., Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood,
3 vols. (New York: Macmillan Reference, 2003).
Allison James, Chris Jenks, and Alan Prout, Theorizing Childhood
(New York: Teachers College Press, 1998).
Alan Prout and Allison James, “A New Paradigm for the Sociology
of Childhood? Provenance, Promise and Problems,” in Constructing
and Reconstructing Childhood: Contemporary Issues in the Sociological
Study of Childhood (London: Falmer Press, 1990), 7-34.
Arlene Skolnick, ed., “Introduction” in Rethinking Childhood:
Perspectives on Development and Society (Boston: Little, Brown, 1976),
1-15.
History (mostly modern U.S.)
Philippe Ariès, Centuries of Childhood, trans. Robert
Baldick (New York: Vintage Books, 1962).
LeRoy Ashby, Endangered Children: Dependency, Neglect, and Abuse
in American History (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1997).
Alan M. Ball, And Now My Soul is Hardened: Abandoned Children in
Soviet Russia, 1918-1930 (Berkeley: University of California Press,
1994).
John Boswell, The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children
in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance (New York:
Pantheon, 1988).
Sherri Broder, Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children: Negotiating
the Family in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia (Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania Press, 2002).
Joan Jacobs Brumberg, The Body Project: An Intimate History of American
Girls (New York: Vintage, 1997).
Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Fasting Girls: The Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa
as a Modern Disease (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988).
Karin Clavert, Children in the House: The Material Culture of Early
Childhood, 1600-1900 (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992).
E. Wayne Carp, Family Matters: Secrecy and Disclosure in the History
of Adoption (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998).
Priscilla Ferguson Clement, Growing Pains: Children in the Industrial
Age, 1850-1890 (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1997).
John Demos, A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1970).
Glen H. Jr. Elder, John Modell, and Ross D. Parke, eds., Children
in Time and Place: Developmental and Historical Insights, Cambridge
Studies in Social and Emotional Development (New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1993).
Paula S. Fass, Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1997).
Paula S. Fass and Mary Ann Mason, eds., Childhood in America (New
York: New York University Press, 1999).
Harvey J. Graff, Conflicting Paths: Growing Up in America (Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1995).
Michael Grossberg, A Judgment for Solomon: The D'Hauteveille Case
and Legal Experience in Antebellum America (New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1996).
Thomas Hine, The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager (New
York: Perennial, 1999).
Wilma King, Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995).
Kriste Lindenmeyer, "A Right to Childhood": The U.S. Children's
Bureau and Child Welfare, 1912-46 (Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, 1997).
K. Tsianina Lomawaima, They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of
Chilocco Indian School (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994).
David I. Macleod, The Age of the Child: Children in America, 1890-1920
(New York: Twayne, 1998).
James Marten, The Children's Civil War (Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, 1998).
Steven Mintz. Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood (Cambridge,: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004).
Mary Niall Mitchell. Raising Freedom's Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future after Slavery. New York: New York University Press, 2008.
Edmund S. Morgan, The Puritan Family: Religion and Domestic Relations
in Seventeenth-Century New England (New York: Harper & Row, 1966).
Grace Palladino, Teenagers: An American History (New York: Basic
Books, 1996).
Leslie Paris. Children's Nature: The Rise of the American Summer Camp(New York: New York University Press, 2008).
Jacqueline S. Reinier, From Virtue to Character: American Childhood,
1775-1850 (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996).
Marie Jenkins Schwartz, Born in Bondage: Growing Up Enslaved in the
Antebellum South (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000).
James W. Trent, Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation
in the United States (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994).
William M. Tuttle, Jr., 'Daddy's Gone to War': The Second World War
in the Lives of America's Children (New York: Oxford University Press,
1993).
Moral Value, Consumption, Popular Culture
Gary Cross, Kids’ Stuff: Toys and the Changing World of American
Childhood (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997).
Lynn Hirschberg, “Desperate to Seem 16,” New York Times
Magazine, September 5 1999, 42-49, 74, 77-79.
Henry Jenkins, ed., The Children's Culture Reader (New York:
New York University Press, 1998).
Caroline F. Levander and Carol J. Singley, eds., The American Child:
A Cultural Studies Reader (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University
Press, 2003).
Thomas H. Murray, The Worth of a Child (Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1996).
Margaret Jane Radin, Contested Commodities: The Trouble With Trade
in Sex, Children, Body Parts, and Other Things (Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1996).
Steven Watts, The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way
of Life (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997).
Viviana A. Zelizer, Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social
Value of Children (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985).
Poverty, Social Policy, and Legal Regulation
William Ayers, A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile
Court (Boston: Beacon Press, 1997).
Elizabeth Bartholet, Nobody’s Children: Abuse and Neglect,
Foster Drift, and the Adoption Alternative (Boston: Beacon Press,
1999).
Nina Bernstein, The Lost Children of Wilder (New York: Pantheon
Books, 2001).
Elinor Burkett, The Baby Boon: How Family-Friendly America Cheats
the Childless (New York: Free Press, 2000).
Hillary Rodham Clinton, It Takes a Village and Other Lessons Children
Teach Us (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996).
Lisa Dodson, Don’t Call Us Out of Name: The Untold Lives of
Women and Girls in Poor America (Boston: Beacon Press, 1998).
William Finnegan, Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country
(New York: Random House, 1998).
Canada Geoffrey, Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence
in America (Boston: Beacon Press, 1995)
Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Cornell West, The War Against Parents: What
We Can Do for America's Beleaguered Moms and Dads (New York: Houghton
Mifflin, 1998).
Alex Kotlowitz, There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys
Growing Up in the Other America (New York: Doubleday, 1991).
Jonathan Kozol, Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience
of a Nation (New York: Harper Perennial, 1996).
Jonathan Kozol, Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts
and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools (New York:
Bantam, 1967).
Jonathan Kozol, Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of
Hope (New York: Crown, 2000).
Susan Levine. School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.)
Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner, Children, Race, and Power: Kenneth
and Mamie Clark's Northside Center (Charlottesville: University Press
of Virginia, 1996).
Mary Ann Mason, Arlene Skolnick, and Stephen D. Sugarman, eds., All
Our Families: New Policies for a New Century (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1998).
Sonia Michel, Children's Interests, Mothers' Rights: The Shaping
of America's Child Care Policy (New Haven: Yale University Press,
1999).
Martha Minow, ed., Family Matters: Readings on Family Lives and
the Law (New York: New Press, 1993).
Blake Morrison, As If: A Crime, A Trial, A Question of Childhood
(New York: Picador, 1997).
Ellen Ryerson, The Best-Laid Plans: America's Juvenile Court Experiment
(New York: Hill and Wang, 1978).
Judith S. Wallerstein, Julia M. Lewis, and Sandra Blakeslee, The
Unexpected Legacy of Divorce (New York: Hyperion, 2000).
Child Science and The Logic of Human Development
Adriana S. Benzaquén, Encounters with Wild Children: Temptation and Disappointment in the Study of Human Nature (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2006).
John Colapinto, As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a
Girl (New York: HarperCollins, 2000).
Hamilton Cravens, Before Head Start: The Iowa Station and America's
Children (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993).
Rachel Devlin. Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Postwar American Culture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005).
Christa DeLuzio. Female Adolescence in American Scientific Thought, 1830-1930 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007).
Erik H. Erikson, Childhood and Society, 2nd, revised and enlarged
ed. (New York: W.W. Norton, 1950).
Diane Eyer, Mother-Infant Bonding: A Scientific Fiction (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1992).
Janet Lynne Golden. Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005).
Judith Rich Harris, The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out
the Way They Do (New York: Touchstone, 1998).
Ann Hulbert, Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of
Advice About Children (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003).
Kathleen W. Jones, Taming the Troublesome Child: American Families,
Child Guidance, and the Limits of Psychiatric Authority (Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1999).
Jerome Kagan, The Nature of the Child (New York: Basic Books,
1984).
Daniel J. Kindlon and Michael Thompson, Raising Cain: Protecting
the Emotional Life of Boys (New York: Ballantine, 2000).
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression
of the Seduction Theory (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1984).
Ross D. Parke et al., eds., A Century of Developmental Psychology
(Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 1994).
Mary Bray Pipher, Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Lives of Adolescent
Girls (New York: Ballantine, 1995).
Nancy L. Segal, Entwined Lives: Twins and What They Tell Us About
Human Behavior (New York: Plume, 1999).
Christina Hoff Sommers, The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism
Is Harming Our Young Men (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000).
Peter N. Stearns, Anxious Parents: A History of Modern Childrearing
in America (New York: New York University Press, 2003).
Fernando Vidal, Piaget Before Piaget (Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1994).
Childhood Cross-Culturally
Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong
Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (New
York: Hill and Wang, 1997).
Evelynn Maxine Hammonds, Childhood's Deadly Scourge: The Campaign
to Control Diphtheria in New York City, 1880-1930 (Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1999).
Stephanie Coontz, ed., American Families: A Multicultural Reader
(New York: Routledge, 1999).
Chanrithy Him, When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer
Rouge (New York: W.W. Norton, 2000).
Annick Prieur, Mema's House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens,
and Machos (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998).
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday
Life in Brazil (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992).
Carol B. Stack, All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black
Community (New York: Harper Colophon, 1974).
Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Carolyn Sargent, eds., Small Wars: The Cultural
Politics of Childhood (Berkeley: University of California Press,
1998).
Sharon Stephens, ed., Children and the Politics of Culture
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995).
Narratives and Fiction
Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina (New York: Dutton,
1992).
Chelsea Cain, ed., Wild Child: Girlhoods in the Counterculture
(Seattle: Seal Press, 1999).
Lorene Cary, Black Ice (New York: Knopf, 1991).
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (New York: Bantam, 1995).
Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted (New York: Turtle Bay Books,
1993).
Barbara Kingsolver, Pigs in Heaven (New York: Harper Perennial,
1993).
Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible (New York: HarperFlamingo,
1998).
Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes (New York: Scribner, 1996).
Lisa Michaels, Split: A Counterculture Childhood (Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1999).
Anna J. Michener, Becoming Anna: The Autobiography of a Sixteen-Year-Old
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998).
Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi (New York: Dell, 1968).
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (New York: Knopf, 1993).
Sonia Nazario. Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother (New York: Random House, 2006).
Clara Claiborne Park, Exiting Nirvana: A Daughter's Life with Autism
(Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2001).
Richard Rodriguez, Hunger of Memory (New York: Bantam, 1983).
Daphne Scholinski and Jane Meredith Adams, The Last Time I Wore a
Dress (New York: Riverhead Books, 1997).
Brady Udall. The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint (New York: Norton, 2001).
Rebecca Walker, Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting
Self (New York: Riverhead Books, 2001).
Suzanne Mehler Whiteley, Appel Is Forever: A Child's Memoir (Detroit:
Wayne State University Press, 1999).
Barbara Wilson, Blue Windows: A Christian Science Childhood
(New York: Picador, 1997).
Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
(New York: Riverhead Books, 1994).
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