Barry C. Feld's The Evolution of the Juvenile Court: Race, Politics, and the Criminalizing of Juvenile Justice is this week's featured book. Listen to Dr. Feld discuss his work, here.
Eileen Ford's Childhood and Modernity in Cold War Mexico City takes centre stage, this week. Listen to Eileen's interview, conducted by Antoinette Burton, here.
This week, Melissa Klapper discusses her monograph, Ballet Class: An American History. You can listen to the episode, here.
This week we'll read about The Oxford Handbook of the History of Education, and listen to the editors, Eileen H. Tamura and John L. Rury, on the SHCY Podcast.
Learn about Clare Daniel's monograph, Mediating Morality: the Politics of Teen Pregnancy in the Post-Welfare Era. Listen to her interview here.
This week we explore Gilded Youth: Privilege, Rebellion, and the British Public School, a monograph by James Brooke-Smith. You can listen to James' interview with Frans de Bruyn, here.
Molly Ladd-Taylor discusses her monograph, Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century, with Anne G. Rubenstein. You can listen to their podcast episode, here.
This week's featured book is a volume of essays, L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s), co-edited by Rita Bode and Jean Mitchell. Listen to their discussion on the SHCY podcast, here.
Anna Mae Duane on Child Slavery before and after Emancipation: An Argument for Child Centred Slavery Studies. Listen to her SHCY podcast episode, originally from the C19 podcast, here.
Revisit Andrew R. Ruis discussion food culture in American school food programs Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States. Listen to his interview here.
The week we revisit a February 2019 episode on Slavery, Abolition, and Childhood in Jamaica, 1788-1838 by Colleen Vasconcellos. Listen to her interview on the SHCY podcast, here.
This week we revisit the ninth featured book in our series, From Superman to Social Realism: Children's Media and Scandinavian Childhood by Helle Strandgaard Jensen. In addition to the featured post, please listen here for Dr. Jensen's interview with her colleague, Sophie Heywood.
Read about The Metamorphosis of Autism: A History of Child Development by Bonnie Evans. Also listen here for the author's interview about her monograph with Ayesha Nathoo.
This week we revisit Fostering on the Farm: Child Placement in the Rural Midwest by Megan Birk. In addition to the featured post, please listen here for Dr. Birk's interview which is conducted by Jennifer Robin Terry, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
The eighth featured book is The Best Possible Immigrants: International Adoption by Rachel Rains Winslow. In addition to the featured post, please listen here for Dr. Winslow's interview with her colleague, Heather Keaney.
This week, we revisit Child Soldiers in the Western Imagination: From Patriots to Victims by David M. Rosen. In addition to the featured post, please listen here for Dr. Rosen's interview with his colleague, Robert Houle.
Read about Lindsey Dodd's monograph, French Children Under the Allied Bombs, 1940-1945: An Oral History. You can also listen to an interview with Dodd conducted by Joe Hopkinson here.
This week we explore Jane Nicholas's monograph, Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s. To learn more and listen to her interview with Renee Bondy, click here.
The fourth in the Featured Books series is Heidi Morrisons's Childhood and Colonial Modernity in Egypt. In addition to the featured post, please listen here for Dr. Morrison's interview with Nancy Gallagher, professor emeritus from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
This week we revisit The Government of Childhood: Discourse, Power and Subjectivity by Karen M. Smith. In addition to the featured post, you can listen to Dr. Smith speak with Patrick J. Ryan about her monograph, here.