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Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood
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Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood Paperback - 1998 - 1st Edition

by Mary Picone

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University of California Press, 1998. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:9780520209183
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  • Title Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood
  • Author Mary Picone
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, California
  • Date 1998
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 9879056
  • ISBN 9780520209183 / 0520209184
  • Weight 1.33 lbs (0.60 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.85 x 5.88 x 1.06 in (22.48 x 14.94 x 2.69 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Children - Social conditions, Children - Cross-cultural studies
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97026998
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.23

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From the publisher

Small Wars gathers together a hard-hitting series of essays that demonstrate how, at the close of the twentieth century, the world's children are affected by global political-economic structures and by everyday practices embedded in the micro-level interactions of local cultures. Perceived as avenging spirits of aborted fetuses in Japan; as obstacles to, or desired commodities of, narcissistic adult fulfillment in North America; as foot soldiers cast onto the paths of drug wars in Spanish Harlem and ethnic wars in the former Yugoslavia; and as "street kids" and public enemies of the middle classes in Brazil, children-these authors suggest-are losing ground. The modern conception of the child as vulnerable and needing protection is giving way to that of the child as miniature adult, a full-circle return to Philippe Aris's notion of premodern childhood.

The authors raise vital questions about social and structural violence and its impact on children and families; about policies that portray children as innocent victims on the one hand and as irredeemable criminals on the other; and about the global economic and political conditions that place many of the world's children at risk. Providing groundbreaking contributions to the contemporary social history and ethnography of childhood, this volume will be important to readers across the social sciences.

First line

Since the beginning of the eighteenth century, every generation of Japanese women has faced a series of conflicting legal, moral, and practical imperatives regarding family planning.

From the rear cover

"A wake-up call to those who are honestly concerned with global childhood safety."--Carol Stack, author of All Our Kin

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About the author

Nancy Scheper-Hughes is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her many publications include two award-winning books published by California, Death Without Weeping (1992), and Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics (1979). Carolyn Sargent, author of Maternity, Medicine, and Power (California, 1989) and coeditor with Robbie Davis-Floyd of Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge (California, 1997), is Professor of Anthropology and Director of Women's Studies at Southern Methodist University.

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