The Moral Project of ChildhoodAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 18 February 2020
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Examines the Protestant origins of motherhood and the child consumer Throughout history, the responsibility for childrenâ?Ts 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 childrenâ?Ts needs and wants, pleasures and pains, through the material world so as to produce the â?ochildâ?? as a moral project. Drawing on a century of religiously-oriented child care advice in womenâ?Ts periodicals, he examines how children ultimately came to be understood by mothersâ?"and later, by commercial actorsâ?"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 childrenâ?Ts consumer culture. An engaging read, The Moral Project of Childhood provides a rich cultural history of childhood.
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