Children in Culture, Revisited

1. Introduction: Voice, Agency and the Child
Karín Lesnik-Oberstein

2. Gender and Childhood in Neoliberal Times: Contemporary Tropes of the Boychild in Psychological Culture
Erica Burman

3. Playthings: Archaeology and the Material Ambiguities of Childhood
Eleanor Conlin Casella

4. Homophobic Bullying: A Queer Tale of Childhood Politics
Daniel Monk

5. Reading the ‘Happy Child’: Normative Discourse in Wellbeing Education
Hannah Anglin-Jaffe

6. Perspectives and Community: Constructions of Autism and Childhood
Helen Ainslie

7. Bothering about Words: Children’s Literature and Ideas of Simplicity and Instruction
Sarah Spooner

8. Irony and the Child
Sue Walsh

9. Fort/Da: A Reading of Pictures of Innocence by Anne Higonnet
Neil Cocks

10. Television for Children: Problems of National Specificity and Globalization
Jonathan Bignell

11.
Out with Romany: Simulating the Natural in BBC Radio’s Children’s Hour 1932–1943
Simon Flynn

12. Vital Victims: Senses of Children in the Urban
Jenny Bavidge

Avainsanat: Literature, Children's Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Twentieth-Century Literature