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RAISING CITIZENS IN THE 'CENTURY OF THE CHILD' IBD

DIRK SCHUMANN
BERGHAHN BOOKS
09 / 2010
9781845456962
Anglès

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The 20th century, declared at its start to be the &ldquo,Century of the Child&rdquo, by Swedish author Ellen Key, saw an unprecedented expansion of state activity in and expert knowledge on child-rearing on both sides of the Atlantic. Children were seen as a crucial national resource whose care could not be left to families alone. However, the exact scope and degree of state intervention and expert influence as well as the rights and roles of mothers and fathers remained subjects of heated debates throughout the century. While there is a growing scholarly interest in the history of childhood, research in the field remains focused on national narratives. This volume compares the impact of state intervention and expert influence on theories and practices of raising children in the U.S. and German Central Europe. In particular, the contributors focus on institutions such as kindergartens and schools where the private and the public spheres intersected, on notions of &ldquo,race&rdquo, and &ldquo,ethnicity,&rdquo, &ldquo,normality&rdquo, and &ldquo,deviance,&rdquo, and on the impact of wars and changes in political regimes.Dirk Schumannáis a Professor of Modern History at Georg-August-University Göttingen. He was Deputy Director of the German Historical Institute Washington, D.C., from 2002 to 2007 and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Bielefeld. From 1999 to 2002 he taught as Visiting Professor at Emory University. He is the author of Political Violence in the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933: Fight for the Streets and Fear of Civil Wará(English edition, Berghahn Books, 2009) and has co-editedáLife After Deathá(Cambridge University Press, 2003),áViolence and Society after the First World Wará(first issue of Journal of Modern European History, 2003), andáBetween Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germanyá(Berghahn Books, 2008).

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