Post-war childhood : growing up in the not-so -friendly baby boomer years /

Many British baby boomers are very nostalgic about a supposed golden age; a vanished world when children were generally freer, happier and healthier than they are now. They wandered about all day; only returning home at teatime when they were hungry. Nobody worried about health and safety or 's...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Webb, Simon, 1954- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Barnsley : Pen & Sword History, 2017.
Temas:
1900-1999
Children > Great Britain > Social conditions > 20th century.
Children > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Enfants > Grande-Bretagne > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Children.
Children > Social conditions.
Great Britain.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • List of Plates
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 The Land of Lost Content: Childhood in the Good Old Days
  • Chapter 2 'Dumb But Pretty, Like a Schoolgirl Should Be': The Sexual Abuse of Children in the Post-War Years
  • Chapter 3 Of Moral Panics and ASBOs: Juvenile Crime and Disorder in the 1950s and 1960s
  • Chapter 4 Playing Out and Walking to School: The Facts Behind the 'Freedom' Enjoyed by Young Baby Boomers
  • Chapter 5 Falling Life Expectancy: Are the Baby Boomers More Healthy than their Grandchildren?
  • Chapter 6 Back to Basics: Has Education Been Dumbed Down Since the 1960s?
  • Chapter 7 There Was Nothing Like That When I Was a Boy!: The Older Generation's Fear of New Media
  • Chapter 8 From Janet and John to the Famous Five: Baby Boomer Childhood in Fiction
  • Chapter 9 Limited Choices: How Much Freedom Did the Baby Boomers Actually Have as Children?
  • Afterword
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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