Picturing Childhood: The Myth of the Child in Popular Imagery

by Patricia Holland

Book Overview

Whether controversial or taken for granted, pictures of children are everywhere - in magazines, newspapers and advertisements, on greetings cards and the Internet. "Picturing Childhood" demonstrates how these familiar images reveal a view of childhood which is constantly changing. With debates over children's rights in the 1970s, child sexual abuse in the 1980s, violent children in the 1990s and precocity and consumerism in the 2000s, the traditional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1860647758
• ISBN13: 9781860647758
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.9"