Picturing Childhood
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Picturing Childhood

The Myth of the Child in Popular Imagery

  1. 215 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Picturing Childhood

The Myth of the Child in Popular Imagery

About this book

Whether controversial or taken for granted, pictures of children are everywhere - in magazines, newspapers and advertisements, on greetings cards and the Internet. "Picturing Childhood" demonstrates how these familiar images reveal a view of childhood which is constantly changing. With debates over children's rights in the 1970s, child sexual abuse in the 1980s, violent children in the 1990s and precocity and consumerism in the 2000s, the traditional image of childhood innocence survives only as a form of kitsch. Using images from a wide variety of sources, this text considers the popular imagery in relation to news, education, welfare, charity and consumerism and asks what implications does all this have for the ways in which children themselves are treated?

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Preface - Twenty-first-century childhood and the routine spectacular
  5. Introduction - Pictures of Children: images of childhood
  6. 1. There's no such thing as a baby... or is there?
  7. 2. Superbrats in the charmed circle of home
  8. 3. Ignorant pupils and harmonious nature
  9. 4. The fantasy of liberation and the demand for rights
  10. 5. No future: the threat of childhood and the impossibility of youth
  11. 6. Crybabies and damaged children
  12. 7. Gender, sexuality and a fantasy for girls
  13. Postscript - Escape from childhood
  14. Index