The Moral Project of Childhood: Motherhood, Material Life, and Early Children's Consumer Culture

by Daniel Thomas Cook

Book Overview

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 the nineteenth-century United States meticulously managed their children's needs and wants, pleasures and pains, through the material world...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479810266
• ISBN13: 9781479810260
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"