Children's childhoods : observed and experienced / edited with an introduction by Berry Mayall. - London ; Washington, D.C. : Falmer Press, 1994. - vi, 184 p. ; 24 cm. + pbk.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-179) and index.

Introduction -- Women and children first and last: Parallels and differences between children's and women's studies / Ann Oakley -- Children's rights / Gerrison Lansdown -- Researching children's rights to integrity / Priscilla Alderson -- The family - A refuge from demands or an arena for the exercise of power and control - Children's fictions on their future families / Gunilla Hallden -- Television and the definition of childhood / David Buckingham -- Creating the capable body: discourses about ability and effort in primary and secondary school studies / Lise Bird -- Children in action at home and school / Berry Mayall -- Responsible children? aspects of children's work and employment outside school in contemporary UK / Virginia Morrow -- Opportunities for childhoods in late twentieth century Britain / Colin Ward -- Childhood as a mode of production / David Oldman.

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Child development
Children
Children and adults.
Socialization.

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