Studies in Modern Childhood

Acknowledgements List of Figures and Graphs Notes on Contributors Varieties of Childhood; J.Qvortrup Complex Interconnections. The Global and the Local in Children's Minds and Everyday Worlds; H.Hengst Mediatized Childhoods: Discourses, Dilemmas and Directions; K.Drotner Opting into (and out of) Childhood: Young People, Sex, and the Media; D.Buckingham & S.Bragg Is It Time to Rethink Media Panics?; S.Kline The Terror of Hypervigilance: Security and the Compromised Spaces of Contemporary Childhood; C.Katz Childhood and Transgressions; C.Jenks Prisoners of Childhood: Orphans and Economic Dependency; J.Ennew 'In Defence of Childhood': Against the Neo-Liberal Assault on Social Life; M.Lavalette The Wealth of Children: Reconsidering the Child Labour Debate; O.Nieuwenhuys The Priceless Child Revisited; V.Zelizer Work, Welfare and Generational Order: Towards a Political Economy of Childhood; H.Wintersberger Social Justice and the Rights of Children; H.Bojer Collective Action and Agency in Young Children's Peer Cultures; W.Corsaro Life Times: Children's Perspectives on Age, Agency and Memory across the Life Course; A.James Structuration of Childhood: An Essay on the Structuring of Childhood and Anticipatory Socialisation; I.Frønes Index