27. ‘‘Selling’’ Food to Children

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Childhood Innocence and Other Modern Myths 1
5. PART I: Childhood Innocence
6. 1. From Immodesty to Innocence 41
7. 2. The Case of Peter Pan: The Impossibility of Children’s Fiction 58
8. 3. Children in the House: The Material Culture of Early Childhood 67
9. 4. From Useful to Useless: Moral Conflict over Child Labor 81
10. 5. The Making of Children’s Culture 95
11. 6. Seducing the Innocent: Childhood and Television in Postwar America 110
12. 7. Unlearning Black and White: Race, Media, and the Classroom 136
13. 8. The New Childhood: Home Alone As a Way of Life 159
14. 9. Child Abuse and the Unconscious in American Popular Culture 178
15. PART II: Childhood Sexuality
16. 10. Fun Morality: An Analysis of Recent American Child- Training Literature 199
17. 11. The Sensuous Child: Benjamin Spock and the Sexual Revolution 209
18. 12. How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay 231
19. 13. Producing Erotic Children 241
20. 14. Popular Culture and the Eroticization of Little Girls 254
21. 15. Stealing Innocence: The Politics of Child Beauty Pageants 265
22. 16. A Credit to Her Mother 283
23. PART III: Child’s Play
24. 17. Children’s Desires/Mothers’ Dilemmas: The Social Contexts of Consumption 297
25. 18. Boys and Girls Together . . . But Mostly Apart 318
26. 19. Boy Culture 337
27. 20. The Politics of Dollhood in Nineteenth-Century America 363
28. 21. Older Heads on Younger Bodies 382
29. 22. Confections, Concoctions, and Conceptions 394
30. 23. Living in a World of Words 406
31. 24. The Tidy House 431
32. PART IV: Sourcebook
33. Section A: Introduction
34. 25. Reaching Juvenile Markets 457
35. 26. Does Your ‘‘Research’’ Embrace the Boy of Today? 462
36. 27. ‘‘Selling’’ Food to Children 463
37. Section B. The Family in Crisis
38. 28. After the Family—What? 468
39. 29. Against the Threat of Mother Love 470
40. Section C: Children at War
41. 30. Children in Wartime: Parents’ Questions 476
42. 31. You Are Citizen Soldiers 480
43. 32. Raise Your Boy to Be a Soldier 483
44. Section D: Popular Culture and the Family
45. 33. ‘‘Such Trivia As Comic Books’’ 485
46. 34. The Play’s the Thing 493
47. Section E: Freedom and Responsibility
48. 35. New Parents for Old 496
49. 36. Families and the World Outside 499
50. 37. Time Bombs in Our Homes 501
51. 38. Democratic and Autocratic Child Rearing 503
52. Section F: The Permissive Family
53. 39. The Contemporary Mother and Father 507
54. 40. The New Oedipal Drama of the Permissive Family 510
55. 41. The Modern Pediocracy 512
56. Contributors 515
57. Permissions 518
58. Index 523