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Book/Printed Material Querying childhood : feminist reframings

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Title

  • Querying childhood : feminist reframings

Summary

  • "This book critically examines assumptions about age, women, and gender. Amidst all the attention that has been granted to difference and inequality, however uneven and unsatisfactory in terms of class and caste, race and ethnicity, sexuality and gender, disability, religion, and nation, questions of age and its importance for feminism have been less well defined. Drawing on recent literature on childhood, the essays in this volume cover a range of fresh perspectives. These include: - What kinds of biological, legal, chronological histories do age have and the fundamental ways in which these links are being recast; - How gender differences occupy a prominent place in historical constructions of identities, especially the frequent infantilisation of women, who are never seen as adults in the full sense of the term nor equally allowed to be children beyond the first years of life; - Ways in which class, caste, gender and ethnicity shaped classrooms and opportunities for education in the colonial period and the 20th century to produce new ideas of childhood; - Gendered outcomes for children in the context of a long entanglement of law with labour, transformations in practices of parenting over time and how the concept of care emerged in both western and non-western societies. An incisive study on how childhoods have come to be understood, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of gender studies, childhood studies, family studies, modern history, legal history, social policy, social psychology, education, and sociology. This volume will also interest parents, paediatricians, family health providers, teachers and educators, and anyone who works with children"-- Provided by publisher.

Names

  • John, Mary E., 1956- editor
  • Lotz, Barbara, 1957- editor
  • Schömbucher, Elisabeth, editor

Created / Published

  • London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Headings

  • -  Children
  • -  Girls
  • -  Feminism

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • -  Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HQ767.9

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024025945

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Access Advisory

  • Unrestricted online access.

Online Format

  • epub
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

John, Mary E., Editor, and Barbara Lotz. Querying Childhood: Feminist Reframings. editeds by Schömbucher, Elisabeth London ; New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025. Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024025945/.

APA citation style:

John, M. E. & Lotz, B., Schömbucher, E., ed. (2025) Querying Childhood: Feminist Reframings. London ; New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024025945/.

MLA citation style:

John, Mary E., Editor, and Barbara Lotz. Querying Childhood: Feminist Reframings. ed by Schömbucher, Elisabeth London ; New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2024025945/>.