Raising Citizens in the 'Century of the Child': The United States and German Central Europe in Comparative Perspective

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Titel: Raising Citizens in the 'Century of the Child' : The United States and German Central Europe in Comparative Perspective

Enthält: Frontmatter
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Introduction CHILD-REARING AND CITIZENSHIP IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Part I FOUNDATIONS
Chapter 1 CHILDREN AND THE NATIONAL INTEREST
Part II NEW BEGINNINGS
Chapter 2 CHILDREN’S FUTURE, NATION’S FUTURE Race, Citizenship, and the United States Children’s Bureau
Chapter 3 FROM REFORM PEDAGOGY TO WAR PEDAGOGY Education Reform before 1914 and the Mobilization for War in Germany
Chapter 4 “LINKED WITH THE WELFARE OF ALL PEOPLES” The American Kindergarten, Americanization, and Internationalism in the First World War
Part III PARENTAL RIGHTS AND STATE DEMANDS
Chapter 5 HOW SHOULD WE RAISE OUR SON BENJAMIN? Advice Literature for Mothers in Early Twentieth-Century Germany
Chapter 6 DEBUNKING MOTHER LOVE American Mothers and the Momism Critique in the Mid Twentieth Century
Chapter 7 FATHERHOOD, RECHRISTIANIZATION, AND THE QUEST FOR DEMOCRACY IN POSTWAR WEST GERMANY
Part IV PARENTAL RIGHTS AND STATE DEMANDS
Chapter 8 WHO OWNS CHILDREN? Parents, Children, and the State in the United States South
Chapter 9 “CHILDREN BETRAY THEIR FATHER AND MOTHER” Collective Education, Nationalism, and Democracy in the Bohemian Lands, 1900–1948
Chapter 10 ASSERTING THEIR “NATURAL RIGHT” Parents and Public Schooling in Post-1945 Germany
Chapter 11 “SPECIAL RELATIONSHIPS” The State, Social Workers, and Abused Children in the United States, 1950–1990
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX

Beteiligte: Berg, Ellen L. [MitwirkendeR]; Bullard, Katharine S. [MitwirkendeR]; Curry, Lynne [MitwirkendeR]; Donson, Andrew [MitwirkendeR]; Israel, Charles A. [MitwirkendeR]; Kay, Carolyn [MitwirkendeR]; Michel, Sonya [MitwirkendeR]; Plant, Rebecca Jo [MitwirkendeR]; Rahden, Till van [MitwirkendeR]; Schumann, Dirk [MitwirkendeR]; Schumann, Dirk [HerausgeberIn]; Varsa, Eszter [MitwirkendeR]; Zahra, Tara [MitwirkendeR]

Erschienen: New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, [2010]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (280 p.)

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9781845459994

ISBN: 9781845459994

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Schlagwörter: HISTORY / Europe / Germany

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Anmerkungen: In English

Beschreibung: The 20th century, declared at its start to be the “Century of the Child” by Swedish author Ellen Key, saw an unprecedented expansion of state activity in and expert knowledge on child-rearing on both sides of the Atlantic. Children were seen as a crucial national resource whose care could not be left to families alone. However, the exact scope and degree of state intervention and expert influence as well as the rights and roles of mothers and fathers remained subjects of heated debates throughout the century. While there is a growing scholarly interest in the history of childhood, research in the field remains focused on national narratives. This volume compares the impact of state intervention and expert influence on theories and practices of raising children in the U.S. and German Central Europe. In particular, the contributors focus on institutions such as kindergartens and schools where the private and the public spheres intersected, on notions of “race” and “ethnicity,” “normality” and “deviance,” and on the impact of wars and changes in political regimes

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