Modern Fatherhood, Nationhood, and Globalization in Japan
A review of Gender, Family, and New Styles of Fatherhood: Modernization and Globalization in Japan, by Atsuko Oyama. Atsuko Oyama’s dissertation provides multidisciplinary insight into…
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Sanmao Comics and Chinese Politics, 1935-1962
A review of The Revolution of a Little Hero: The Sanmao Comic Strips and the Politics of Childhood in China, 1935-1962, by Laura Pozzi. One…
Preschool Education & Childhood in China
A review of Precocious Politics: Preschool Education and Child Protection in China, by Margaret Mih Tillman. Margaret Mih Tillman’s Precocious Politics, traces the creation and…
Modern Korean Childhood
A review of The Construction of the Child in Korean Children’s Magazines, 1908-1950, by Dafna Zur. By analyzing a variety of texts and illustrations in…
Soviet Childhood in the Age of Revolution
A review of Empire’s Children: Soviet Childhood in the Age of Revolution, by Loraine de la Fe. Loraine de la Fe’s dissertation is an impressive…
Japanese Children’s Literature 17-19c
A review of Visualizing the Child: Japanese Children’s Literature in the Age of Woodblock Print, 1678-1888, by Kristin Holly Williams. Although certainly not spoiled with…
Science & American Childhood Cultures, 1900-80
A review of Science and the Culture of American Childhood, 1900-1980, by Rebecca Stiles Onion. The circulation of scientific knowledge among laypeople in England and…
Asperger’s Syndrome, Biomedicine & Identity
A review of The Machine Within: An Ethnography of Asperger’s Syndrome, Biomedicine, and The Paradoxes of Identity and Technology in the Late Modern United States,…
Fragile Kinships & Child Welfare in Japan
A review of Fragile Kinships: Family Ideologies and Child Welfare in Japan, by Kathryn Goldfarb. It is to Kathryn Goldfarb’s credit that her dissertation includes…
Childbirth Injuries & Religious Subjects in Ethiopia
A review of The Gift of Cure: Childbirth Injuries, Clinical Structures, and Religious Subjects in Ethiopia, by Anita Hannig. Over the last years, obstetric fistula…