Author: 
Majia Holmer Nadesan
Reviewer: 
Carolyn Ogburn

Ogburn on Nadesan, 'Governing Childhood into the 21st Century: Biopolitical Technologies of Childhood Management and Education'

Majia Holmer Nadesan. Governing Childhood into the 21st Century: Biopolitical Technologies of Childhood Management and Education. Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 245 pp. $89.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-230-61321-8.

Reviewed by Carolyn Ogburn (UNC-TEACCH) Published on H-Disability (June, 2013) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison

Author: 
Daniel Thomas Cook
Reviewer: 
Patrick J. Ryan

Ryan on Cook, 'The Commodification of Childhood: The Children's Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer'

Daniel Thomas Cook. The Commodification of Childhood: The Children's Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. 211 pp. $21.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-3268-8.

Reviewed by Patrick J. Ryan (Childhood and Social Institutions Program, King's University College at the University of Western Ontario) Published on H-Childhood (March, 2007)

Author: 
Steven Mintz
Reviewer: 
Hugh Cunningham

Cunningham on Mintz, 'Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood'

Steven Mintz. Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. xii + 445 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-01508-1; $18.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-674-01998-0.

Reviewed by Hugh Cunningham (University of Kent, England) Published on H-Childhood (February, 2006)

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