Social Science : Children's Studies

Childhood offers a greater appreciation of the social factors that make up our knowledge of children and childhood. Viewing childhood from a social constsruc......

"""Most of society has given up on these girls. Dead End Kids shows us why this is a tragic mistake.""âElizabeth Mehren, national correspondent, Los Angeles ......

Explores how individual differences contribute to health and illness across a wide range of cultures and socio-economic bacgrounds. Blends latest research fi......

Providing a much-needed insight into Victorian attitudes, including that of Christian morality, this book makes a distinctive contribution to the history of ......

The increasing number of 'missing girls' in much of South and East Asia provides the disturbing focus this key title. It is unique in it's positive attention......

"Childhood" offers a greater appreciation of the social factors that make up our knowledge of children and childhood. Viewing childhood from a social constru......

Alexandra Minna Stern is Associate Director of the Center for the History of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and American Cultu......

This intensely personal and engaging memoir is the coming-of-age story of a white boy growing up in a neighborhood of predominantly African American and Lati......

This book reports the only national, random sample survey of US children and adolescents' use of all of the various media available to them conducted in at l......

This is a study of successful youth development in poor, disadvantaged neighborhoods in Denver and Chicago - a study of how children living in the worst neig......

Male teenage cliques have come a long way since the days of the "Breakfast Club" and "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," when most adolescents could be lumped to......

Straight edge is a clean living youth movement that emerged from the punk rock subculture in the early 1980s. Its basic tenets promote a drug-free, tobacco-f......

Risky Lessons brings readers inside three North Carolina middle schools to show how students and teachers support and subvert the official curriculum of sex ......

The late 1990s and early 2000s witnessed a surge in the publication and popularity of autobiographical writings about childhood. Linking literary and cultura......

HIV/AIDS is generating a major humanitarian crisis for families in Sub-Saharan Africa. The number of children who have lost one or both parents to AIDS is ex......

Early childhood, from birth through school entry, was largely invisible worldwide as a policy concern for much of the twentieth century. Children, in the eye......

There is increasing evidence that the first few years after birth are particularly important in child development and present opportunities for enrichment bu......

Young teens undergo multiple changes that seem to set them apart from other students. But do middle schools actually meet their special needs? The authors d......

This report presents results from a multisite, quantitative evaluation of the international Spirituality for Kids (SFK) after-school program. Despite its nam......

In the wake of September 11 through the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a key tenet of U.S. foreign policy has been that promoting democracy in the Arab world is an...