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Childhood Exposure to Spousal Abuse in Marilyn Heward Mill’s Cloth Girl
Existing studies have focused on many aspects of spousal abuseSpousal abuse. Studies abound on what constitutes abuse, types of spousal abuse and...
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The Queerness of Childhood Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass
This book represents a meeting of queer theorists and psychoanalysts around the figure of the child. Its intention is not only to interrogate the...
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Orality and Early Childhood Education
The ascendancy of literacy in the education of, and the general interactions between adults is also reflected in early childhood education. The...
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Queue Time, Animation, and the Queer Childhood of Late Socialism
This chapter argues that the Brezhnev-era queue, films, and literature gave rise to and enacted what Jack Halberstam and others have called queer...
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The Child in Videogames From the Meek, to the Mighty, to the Monstrous
Drawing across Games Studies, Childhood Studies, and Children’s Literature Studies, this book redirects critical conversations away from questions of...
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Toys, Childhood, and Material Culture in Byzantium
This paper explores the playthings and amusements of Byzantine children through an inquiry into material culture, evidence from the literature, and...
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The Cultivation of Queer and Trans Childhood: Eugenic Logics of Genetics and Endocrine Science
The meteoric rise in visibility of gay and transgender children in recent years has heightened longstanding debates over the biological basis and...
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Playing with Minimalism: How Parents Are Sold on High-End Toys and Childhood Simplicity
Minimalism has become a trendy lifestyle choice promoted in popular blogs and podcasts that offer solutions for modern parenting problems. Brands of...
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Unseeable Abuse: The Impossible Act of Visualising Childhood Sexual Abuse in Digital Cultures and Technology
This essay is a cultural study of child sexual abuse’s (CSA) (non)representation in media, considering the mass cultural echoes that emerge from this...
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Young Voices, an Old Problem: When Latin American Chroniclers Tell Stories About Childhood and Youth
This chapter focuses on texts written by Latin American chroniclers Juan Villoro, Alberto Salcedo Ramos, Alma Guillermoprieto, Leila Guerriero and...
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The Child as a Social Construct
Coded kids in computer-generated environments remind us that much of what we assume to be biological, obvious, and consistent about childhood is, in...
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Introduction: Anxiety Over Childhood and Youth Across Cultures
The introductory chapter of this volume sets to define the epistemological context within which this collective work is situated. Acknowledging the...
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Pedophobiac Audiences: Map** the Presence of the Child in Horror Cinema
The presence of the child has become a staple ingredient of the horror genre since the Romantic Gothic tradition. Earlier, children had a limited...
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The Republic of Childhood: Friedrich Froebel’s Kindergarten and Naturphilosophie
This essay considers the idea of the Kindergarten as theorized by Friedrich Froebel in 1840, focusing on his view of gardening as a socially...
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Childhood
Lullabies and play-songs are a pervasive part of human culture across the globe, and examples of these can also be found in early records of human...
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Vaccine Support and Hesitancy on Twitter: Opposing Views, Similar Strategies, and the Mixed Impact of Conspiracy Theories
Vaccine hesitancy is vital to understanding individuals’ likelihood to be vaccinated and to have parents vaccinating their children (Jarrett et al.,...
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Writing the Child
Illuminating the discursive history of the child, this chapter discusses the way religious and philosophical discourses employed the figure of the...
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Media Proclivities, Preferences, and Perceptions of Digital Technology
This chapter explores children’s media tastes and preferences, moving from digital media to traditional or legacy media. Second, it analyses their...
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Conclusion
This conclusion briefly recaps the tools offered in this book to enhance the interdisciplinary conversations between Games Studies and Children’s...
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Plushies, Dollies, and Action Figurines
This chapter examines videogames with toylike avatars, including Pikmin 3, FallGuys, Scribblenauts Unlimited, and the LittleBigPlanet series. I...