Suffering Childhood in Early America : Violence, Race, and the Making of the Child Victim /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Duane, Anna Mae, 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sex role > United States > History.
Racism > United States > History.
Ethnicity > United States > History.
Political culture > United States > History.
Suffering > Political aspects > United States > History.
Victims > United States > History.
Violence > United States > History.
Children > United States > Social conditions.
United States > Social conditions > To 1865.
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: suffering childhood in early America
  • Children in the hands of Satan : captivity, witch trials, and the dangerous child
  • This infant state : the child nation and infanticide in the early republic
  • Pregnancy and the new birth : reproduction, performance, and infantilizing republican mothers
  • The revolutionary child : slavery, affective contracts, and the future perfect
  • Epilogue: the materials and metaphors of schoolwork.

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