Thatcher's Children?: Politics, Childhood and Society in the 1980s and 1990s

ISBN-13: 9780750704618 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 240 str.

Stephen Wagg; Jane Pilcher Dr; Jane Pilcher

Opis

That childhood is a social construction is understood both by social scientists and in society generally. The authors of this book examine the political issues surrounding childhood, including law making, social policy, government provisions and political activism.

Spis treści

Thatcher's children? - the study of politics of childhood in the neo-liberal era; testing, testing - politics, childhood and British education 1979- 1995; the politics of the Children's Act; happy families - the politics of child abuse; young thugs go for it - the politics of the young offender; Gillick and after - children and sex; the children's rights movement; child poverty; tabloid constructions of childhood - the case of James Bulger's murder; childhood, media and popular culture; childhood, labour and slavery; children and the sex industry in the Far East.

O autorze

Dr Jane Pilcher, Jane Pilcher, Stephen Wagg