Examines the Protestant origins of motherhood and the child consumer
Throughout history, the responsibility for children’s moral well-being has fallen into the laps of mothers. In The Moral Project of Childhood, the noted childhood studies scholar Daniel Thomas Cook illustrates how mothers in the nineteenth-century United States meticulously managed their children’s needs and wants, pleasures and pains, through the material world so as to produce the “child” as a moral project.
Drawing on a century of religiously-oriented child care advice in women’s periodicals, he examines how children ultimately came to be understood by mothers—and later, by commercial actors—as consumers. From concerns about taste, to forms of discipline and punishment, to play and toys, Cook delves into the social politics of motherhood, historical anxieties about childhood, and early children’s consumer culture.
An engaging read, The Moral Project of Childhood provides a rich cultural history of childhood.
"This book treats changes in upper-class education in the 19th-century northeastern US [...] Cook argues that rather than continuing to instruct children according to stern religious values to ensure their moral education, this period emphasized refined taste—a sense of which goods were and were not good—as the new basis of morality and defense of the status quo." - Choice
"A definitive, positive, and original impact on the field of childhood studies... useful for anyone documenting the historical, cultural, and discursive trajectory of childhood and parenting culture, no matter the specific raced, classed, religious, and national social-historical context." - Contemporary Sociology
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Throughout history, the responsibility for children’s moral well-being has fallen into the laps of mothers. In The Moral Project of Childhood, the noted childhood studies scholar Daniel Thomas Cook illustrates how mothers in the nineteenth-century United States meticulously managed their children’s needs and wants, pleasures and pains, through the material world so as to produce the “child” as a moral project.
Drawing on a century of religiously-oriented child care advice in women’s periodicals, he examines how children ultimately came to be understood by mothers—and later, by commercial actors—as consumers. From concerns about taste, to forms of discipline and punishment, to play and toys, Cook delves into the social politics of motherhood, historical anxieties about childhood, and early children’s consumer culture.
An engaging read, The Moral Project of Childhood provides a rich cultural history of childhood.
"This book treats changes in upper-class education in the 19th-century northeastern US [...] Cook argues that rather than continuing to instruct children according to stern religious values to ensure their moral education, this period emphasized refined taste—a sense of which goods were and were not good—as the new basis of morality and defense of the status quo." - Choice
"A definitive, positive, and original impact on the field of childhood studies... useful for anyone documenting the historical, cultural, and discursive trajectory of childhood and parenting culture, no matter the specific raced, classed, religious, and national social-historical context." - Contemporary Sociology
Формат: Скан PDf
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