Childhood in question

Children, parents and the state

By (author) Anthony Fletcher, Stephen Hussey

Publication date:

19 August 1999

Length of book:

188 pages

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Dimensions:

216x138mm

ISBN-13: 9780719053948

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Childhood in Question explores the historical development, from the 1600s to the 1960s, of childhood experience. Drawing on artifacts as diverse as state papers, legal records, diaries, letters and oral sources, the authors probe a series of key issues: the definition of "the child" and the formation of identity; the emotional world of childhood; the changing attitudes of the state to family intimacy and parent-child relations; the sexuality of children; children and authority; and children and crime.

Introduction
Chapter 1: What is a child? Anna Davin
Chapter 2: Children's deaths in the seventeenth century. Ralph Houlbrooke.
Chapter 3: Silent witnesses? Children and the breakdown of domestic and social order in early modern England.
Chapter 4: 'A denial of innocence': Female juvenile victims of rape and the English legal system in the eighteenth century.
Chapter 5: Home, play and street life: Causes of, and explanations for, juvenile crime in the early nineteenth century. Heather Shore
Chapter 6: Parental-child separation and colonial careers: The Talbot family correspondence in the 1880s and 1890s.
Elizabeth Buettner.
Chapter 7: Family, community and the regulation of child sex abuse: London 1870-1914. Louise Jackson.
Chapter 8: Homeless, destitute and neglected: Children's experience of welfare in modern Scotland. Lynn Abrams.