The moral project of childhood : motherhood, material life, and early children's consumer culture /

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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 t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cook, Daniel Thomas, 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : NYU Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Motherhood.
Child consumers.
Consumers.
Electronic books.
Maternité.
Enfants consommateurs.
Livres numériques.
maternity.
e-books.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology of Religion.
Child consumers
Consumers
Motherhood
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A moral architecture: Protestant salvation and the mother-child nexus
  • Productive materialities: making bourgeois childhoods through taste
  • From discipline to reward: reworking children's transgressions
  • Simplicity, money, and property: moralities, materialities, and the didactic imperative
  • Think and feel like a child: pleasure, subjectivity, and authority in early children's consumer culture
  • Conclusion: Legacies of value.

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