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Author Gittins, Diana.

Title The child in question / Diana Gittins
Published New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998

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Description xviii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents 1. Is Childhood Socially Constructed? -- 2. Who Owns Children? -- 3. Is there a Child Within? -- 4. What do Children Represent? -- 5. Are Children Innocent? -- 6. Children's Sexuality: Why do Adults Panic?
Summary Diana Gittins draws on a range of sources - psychoanalytic, historical, social, literary, artistic and personal - to unpack our common assumptions about 'the child' and 'childhood' and explore the meanings and values that are commonly attributed to them. It is in the blurring and overlapping of adults' multiple and diverse notions of what 'the child' is and should be where confusions and contradictions arise. Gittins suggests, then, that the problem lies in what 'the child' means, and has meant, to adults and in how adults succeed in assimilating and organizing these conflicting meanings into behaviors and policies that will affect the life chances of real children further down the line
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) and index
Subject Children and adults.
Children.
LC no. 96052885
ISBN 0312173784 (cloth)
0312173792 (paperback)