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Childhood Studies

Overview

Journals

• American Journal of Play (Strong Museum)
• Boyhood Studies (Berghahn Books)
• Childhood: A Journal of Global Child Research (Sage)
• Children (MDPI)
• Children's Folklore Review (Indiana University)
• Children & Society (Wiley)
• Children, Youth and Environments (University of Cincinnati Press)
• Children's Geographies (Taylor & Francis)
• Girlhood Studies (Berghahn Books)
• Global Studies of Childhood (Sage)
• International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction (Elsevier)
• Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures (University of Toronto Press)
• Journal of Children in Popular Culture (formerly Red Feather)
• The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth (Johns Hopkins University Press)

Books, Monographs

• Playful Visions: Optical Toys and the Emergence of Children’s Media Culture by Meredith Bak (MIT Press, 2020)
• American Children's Folklore by Simon J. Bronner (August House / Little Rock, 1988)
• Children at Play: An American History by Howard P. Chudacoff (New York University Press, 2007)
• Picturing Childhood: The Myth of the Child in Popular Imagery by Patricia Holland ( I. B. Tauris, 2004)
• The History of Childhood: A Very Short Introduction by James Marten (Oxford University Press, 2018)
• Why the Wild Things Are: Animals in the Lives of Children by Gail F. Melson (Harvard University Press, 2005)
• Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Popular Science in the United States by Rebecca Onion (University of North Carolina Press, 2016)
• The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren by Iona and Peter Opie (New York Review of Books, [1959] 2000)

Books, Edited Volumes

• Childhood by Design: Toys and the Material Culture of Childhood, 1700–Present, edited by Megan Brandow-Faller (Bloomsbury, 2018)
• Global Childhoods: Issues and Debates, edited by Kate Cregan & Denise Cuthbert (SAGE, 2014)
• Children and Material Culture, edited By Joanna Sofaer Derevenski (Routledge, 2001)
• The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World, edited by Paula S. Fass (Routledge, 2013)
• The Children’s Culture Reader, edited by Henry Jenkins (New York University Press, 1998)
• Children's Folklore: A Source Book, edited by Brian Sutton-Smith, Jay Mechling, Thomas W. Johnson, & Felicia R. McMahon (Utah State University Press, 1999)
• Reimagining Childhood Studies, edited by Spyros Spyrou, Rachel Rosen, & Daniel Thomas Cook (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)

Centers & Networks

Further Reading

• Childhood Studies, Oxford Bibliographies
• Scholarly Journals, Rutgers Department of Childhood Studies

Playlist

• John Berger: Ways of Seeing
• Retro Report: Dungeons & Dragons
• VOX Darkroom: Lewis Hine and National Child Labor Committee Photographs by Lewis Hine

References

• About Us – Department of Childhood Studies. (n.d.). Rutgers University–Camden. Retrieved from https://childhood.camden.rutgers.edu/about-us/
• Montgomery, H. (n.d.). Childhood Studies. Oxford Bibliographies. Retrieved from https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/page/160

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