Childhood in Question explores the historical development, from the 1600s to the 1960s, of childhood experience. Drawing on artifacts as diverse as state papers, legal records, diaries, letters and oral sources, the authors probe a series of key issues: the definition of "the child" and the formation of identity; the emotional world of childhood; the changing attitudes of the state to family intimacy and parent-child relations; the sexuality of children; children and authority; and children and crime.
- ISBN10 0719053935
- ISBN13 9780719053931
- Publish Date 19 August 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 March 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Manchester University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 188
- Language English