Description
Globalization has carried vast consequences for the lives of children. It has spurred unprecedented waves of immigration, contributed to far-reaching transformations in the organization, structure, and dynamics of family life, and profoundly altered trajectories of growing up. Equally important, globalization has contributed to the world-wide dissemination of a set of international norms about children’s welfare and heightened public awareness of disparities in the lives of children around the world. This book's contributors – leading historians, literary scholars, psychologists, social geographers, and others – provide fresh perspectives on the transformations that globalization has produced in children's lives.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Children and Globalization Part I: Historicizing Global Childhood 1. "Modern" Childhoods: Adjustment, Variety and Stress 2. The New Disorders of Childhood: Historical Perspectives 3. Outside the Lines: Black Girls and Boys Learn About the Interconnected Worlds of Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century North America Part II: Understanding Child Development in Global Contexts 4. The Private World of Women and Children: Lullabies and Nursery Rhymes in 19th-Century Greater Syria 5. "The Elephant in the Room is the Role Model": Managing the Paradox of Pregnancy in the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Classroom Part III: Recovering Children’s Agency 6. "Nothing Material Occurred": Toward Rethinking the History of Early American Girlhood, 1760-1830 7. "To Find a Better Way to Live a Life in the World": An Auto-Ethnographic Exploration of an Ibasho Project with Chinese Immigrant Youth in the United States 8. Growing Gaps in Enacted and Ideational Independence
