QUESTION: KEY
TEXTS (on Special Reserve) 1. What impact did
turn-of-the-century social reformers have on the lives of
poor, urban children? Primary
Sources: Jacob
Riis, How the Other Half Lives Sophonisba
Breckinridge and Edith Abbott, The Delinquent Child and the
Home Edwin Markham,
Benjamin B. Lindsey, and George Creel, Children in
bondage. Robert H. Bremner,
Children and youth in America: a documentary
history
Viviana Zelizer,
Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of
Children David Nasaw,
Children of the City At Work and At Play Dominick Cavallo ,
Muscles and morals : organized playgrounds and urban
reform, 1880-1920 Kriste Lindemeyer,
"A Right to Childhood": The U.S. Children's Bureau and
Child Welfare, 1912-1946 Susan Tiffin, In
whose best interest?: Child welfare reform in the
progressive era David I. Macleod,
Building character in the American boy: the Boy Scouts,
YMCA, and their forerunners, 1870-1920 Jay Mechling, On
my honor: Boy Scouts and the making of American youth
LeRoy Ashby,
Saving the waifs: reformers and dependent children,
1890-1917 Peter C. Holloran,
Boston's wayward children : social services for homeless
children, 1830-1930 2.
What role did teenage girls play in the 'invention' of
female adolescence in the early twentieth
century? Primary
Sources: G. Stanley Hall,
Adolescence: its psychology, and its relations to
physiology, anthropology, sociology, sex, crime, religious
and education
Mary. Odem,
Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent
Female Sexuality in the United States,
1880-1920 Ruth Alexander,
The Girl Problem: Female sexual delinquency in New York,
1900-1930 Jeffrey Moran,
Teaching Sex: The Shaping of Adolescence in the 20th
Century Kathleen Jones,
Taming the Troublesome Child Regina Kunzel,
Fallen Women, Problem Girls: Unmarried Mothers and the
Professionalization of Social Work, 1890-1945 Joseph Kett, Rites
of passage : adolescence in America, 1790 to the
present Paula Fass, The
damned and the beautiful : American youth in the
1920's Susan Cahn, "Spirited
Youth or Fiends Incarnate: The Samarcand Arson Case and
Female Adolescence in the American South," Journal of
Women's History 9, 4 (1998): 152-180. Stephen Robertson,
"Age of Consent Law and the Making of Modern Childhood in
New York City, 1886--1921," Journal of Social History
35, 4 (Summer 2002): 781-798. 3.
To what extent did manufacturers and marketers determine
children's desires and the meaning they gave to toys in the
twentieth century? Gary S. Cross,
Kids' stuff: toys and the changing world of American
childhood Stephen Kline, Out
of the garden: toys, TV, and children's culture in the age
of marketing Henry Jenkins, The
Children's Culture Reader Miriam
Formanek-Brunell, Made to play house: dolls and the
commercialization of American girlhood,
1830-1930 Bernard Mergen,
"Made, Bought, and Stolen: Toys and the Culture of
Childhood," in Elliott West and Paula Petrik, eds., Small
worlds: children & adolescents in America,
1850-1950 Dan Fleming,
Powerplay: toys as popular culture Henry A. Giroux,
The mouse that roared: Disney and the end of
innocence Mary Rogers,
Barbie Culture Ann duCille, "Toy
Theory: Black Barbie and the Deep Play of Difference," in
Skin Trade Wendy Varney, "Of Men
and Machines: Images of Masculinity in boys' toys,"
Feminist Studies 28, 1 (Spring 2002). David
Owen, "Where Toys Come From," Atlantic Monthly
(October 1986) 4.
What impact did reforms have on children's experience of
schooling in the period before World War Two? Primary
Sources Robert H. Bremner,
Children and youth in America: a documentary
history Sol Cohen,
Education in the United States: a documentary
history
Lawrence A. Cremin,
American education : the metropolitan experience,
1876-1980 David F. Labaree,
The making of an American high school : the credentials
market and the Central High School of Philadelphia,
1838-1939 David B. Tyack,
The one best system : a history of American urban
education David B. Tyack,
Tinkering toward utopia : a century of public school
reform Selma Cantor Berrol,
Immigrants at school, New York City, 1898-1914
Michael B. Katz,
Reconstructing American education Stephen Jay Gould,
The Mismeasure of Man Paul Davis Chapman,
Schools as sorters : Lewis M. Terman, applied psychology,
and the intelligence testing movement, 1890-1930
5.
To what extent, in the years before World War Two, did the
system of dating give adolescents greater control of their
heterosexual relationships? Primary
Sources: D. A. Thom,
Guiding the Adolescent Winifred Richmond,
The Adolescent Boy Robert S. Lynd &
Helen Merrell Lynd, Middletown [chapters on
child-rearing and leisure] Willard Walker, "The
Rating and Dating Complex," American Sociological
Review 2 (1937): 727-34
John Modell, Into
One's Own: From Youth to adulthood in the U.S., 1920-1975
Beth Bailey, From
Front Porch to Back Seat Grace Palladino,
Teenagers Paula Fass, The
damned and the beautiful: American youth in the 1920's
Kevin White, The
First Sexual Revolution Lucy Rollin,
Twentieth-century teen culture by the decades: a
reference guide Pamela Haag, "In
Search of the "Real Thing": Ideologies of Love, Modern
Romance, and Women's Sexual Subjectivity in the United
States, 1920-1940," Journal of the History of
Sexuality 2, 4 (1992): 547-577 Michael Gordon, "Was
Waller Ever Right? The Rating and Dating Complex
Reconsidered," Journal of Marriage and the Family 43
(1981): 67-76. 6.
What impact did the Depression of the 1930s have on children
and/or youth? Primary
Sources: High
Schools Face the Great Depression Robert S. McElvaine,
Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the
Forgotten Man Kathleen Thompson and
Hilary Mac Austin, Children of the
Depression. Robert S. Lynd &
Helen Merrell Lynd, Middletown in transition: a study in
cultural conflicts
Joseph M. Hawes,
Children between the wars: American childhood, 1920-1940
Glen H. Elder, Jr.,
Children of the Great Depression: social change in life
experience Kriste Lindenmeyer,
A right to childhood: the U.S. Children's Bureau and
child welfare, 1912-46 John Modell, Into
One's Own: From Youth to adulthood in the U.S.,
1920-1975 Grace Palladino,
Teenagers Richard A. Reiman,
The New Deal & American youth: ideas & ideals in
a depression decade Elizabeth Rose, A
mother's job: the history of day care,
1890-1960 Cheryl Lynn
Greenberg, "Or does it explode?": Black Harlem in the
Great Depression 7. Did adolescents in
movies become less rebellious after the 1950s? Primary
Sources: MOVIES ~ -- you
choose examples [one set of possibilities are those
discussed in the secondary sources]
James Gilbert, A
cycle of outrage: America's reaction to the juvenile
delinquent in the 1950s, chapters 10 &
11. Jon Lewis, The
road to romance & ruin : teen films and youth
culture Ruth M. Goldstein and
Edith Zornow, The screen image of youth : movies about
children and adolescents David M. Considine,
The cinema of adolescence Thomas Doherty,
Teenagers and teenpics : the juvenilization of American
movies in the 1950s Mark Thomas McGee and
R.J. Robertson, The JD Films: Juvenile Delinquency in the
Movies Lesley Speed,
"Tuesday's Gone: The Nostalgic Teen Film," Journal of
Popular Film and Television 26.1 (Spring 1998):
24-32 Kathleen Sweeney,
"Maiden USA: representing teenage girls in the
'90s,"Afterimage 26, 4 (Jan-Feb 1999) R. L. Rutsky.
"Surfing the Other," Film Quarterly, 52, 4 (Summer
1999) 8. Why
did child abuse re-emerge as a social problem in the
post-war United States? Primary
Sources: Robert H. Bremner,
Children and youth in America: a documentary history
(vol. 2 & vol. 3) C. Henry Kempe et al,
"The Battered Child Syndrome," Journal of the American
medical Association 181, 1 (7 July 1962):
17-24 Leontine Young,
Wednesday's Children
Barbara Nelson,
Making an Issue of Child Abuse Ian Hacking, "The
Making and Molding of Child Abuse," Critical Inquiry
17, 2 (Winter 1991) Lela Costin, Howard
Jacob Karger and David Stoesz, The Politics of Child
Abuse in America Linda Gordon,
Heroes of Their Own Lives Elizabeth Pleck,
Domestic tyranny: the making of social policy against
family violence from colonial times to the present
Philip Jenkins,
Moral Panic: Changing Concepts of the Child molester in
Modern America James Kincaid,
Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child
Molesting LeRoy Ashby,
Endangered children: dependency, neglect, and abuse in
American history 9.
Why, in the 1960s, did white, middle-class college students
directly challenge the politics and culture of their
parents? Primary
Sources: The
Port Huron Statement of Students for a Democratic
Society
Seymour Lipset,
Berkeley student revolt; facts and
interpretations W. J. Rorabaugh,
Berkeley at war, the 1960s James Miller,
Democracy is in the streets : from Port Huron to the
siege of Chicago Donald E. Phillips,
Student protest, 1960-1970 : an analysis of the issues
and speeches Charles Kaiser,
1968 in America : music, politics, chaos, counterculture,
and the shaping of a generation Maurice Isserman,
Michael Kazin, America divided : the civil war of the
1960s Irwin Unger, The
movement: a history of the American New Left,
1959-1972. Thomas Frank, The
conquest of cool: business culture, counterculture, and the
rise of hip consumerism Beth Bailey, Sex
in the Heartland Clayborne Carson,
In struggle: SNCC and the Black awakening of the
1960s Howard Zinn, SNCC,
the new abolitionists. Peter Braunstein and
Michael William Doyle, Imagine Nation: The American
Counterculture of th 1960s and '70s Alexander Bloom,
Long time gone : sixties America then and now 10. Why did some
commentators interpret the changes in children's experiences
and behavior in the last quarter of the twentieth century as
'the disappearance of childhood?' Primary
Sources: Neil Postman, The
Disappearance of Childhood David Elkind, The
hurried child: growing up too fast too soon Marie Winn,
Children without childhood Michael Medved and
Diane Medved, Saving Childhood Tipper Gore,
Raising PG kids in an X-rated society
Henry Jenkins,
"Introduction," The Children's Culture
Reader Henry Giroux,
Stealing innocence: youth, corporate power, and the
politics of culture Henry Giroux,
Channel surfing: race talk and the destruction of today's
youth Ann Higonnet,
Pictures of Innocence: The History and Crisis of Ideal
Childhood Alex Kotlowitz,
There Are No Children Here David Buckingham,
After the death of childhood: growing up in the age of
electronic media Ron Powers, Tom
and Huck don't live here anymore: childhood and murder in
the heart of America Judith Levine,
Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from
Sex
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