{"title":"Daniel Thomas Cook","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"moral-project-of-childhood-book-daniel-thomas-cook-9781479899203","title":"The Moral Project of Childhood","description":"Examines the Protestant origins of motherhood and the child consumer   Throughout history, the responsibility for children's moral well-being has fallen into the laps of mothers. In The Moral Project of Childhood, the noted childhood studies scholar Daniel Thomas Cook illustrates how mothers in the nineteenth-century United States meticulously managed their children's needs and wants, pleasures and pains, through the material world so as to produce the \"child\" as a moral project.   Drawing on a century of religiously-oriented child care advice in women's periodicals, he examines how children ultimately came to be understood by mothers—and later, by commercial actors—as consumers. From concerns about taste, to forms of discipline and punishment, to play and toys, Cook delves into the social politics of motherhood, historical anxieties about childhood, and early children's consumer culture.   An engaging read, The Moral Project of Childhood provides a rich cultural history of childhood.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49733088739601,"sku":"NGR9781479899203","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52485524848913,"sku":"NLS9781479899203","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1479899208.jpg?v=1751020801"},{"product_id":"commodification-of-childhood-book-daniel-thomas-cook-9780822332688","title":"The Commodification of Childhood","description":"Through a study of industry publications over much of the century, shows how the U.S. children's clothing industry produced increasingly refined categories of childhood","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51008267682065,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51008271188241,"sku":"NIN9780822332688","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52728143249681,"sku":"GOR004815814","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53334764093713,"sku":"GOR014855055","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/082233268X.jpg?v=1763476353"},{"product_id":"symbolic-childhood-book-daniel-thomas-cook-9780820455808","title":"Symbolic Childhood","description":"In a dozen original essays, contributors to \u003ci\u003eSymbolic Childhood\u003c\/i\u003eengage directly with the politics of representation by scrutinizing the connection between the exercise of power and portrayals of children and childhood. The volume as a whole construes childhood not as a given category, transparently understood, but as a thoroughly social artifact infused with contradictory and inexact meaning. As a social construct, childhood is thus approached as an active production which can be taken apart and reconstructed in a variety of ways, and for a variety of purposes. Chapters examine a range of issues and topics, including: precocious and gifted children, gender, sexuality, innocence, school shootings, cartoons, video games, adoption, street children, and feral children.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52138285924625,"sku":"NLS9780820455808","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780820455808.jpg?v=1757561834"},{"product_id":"moral-project-of-childhood-book-daniel-thomas-cook-9781479810260","title":"The Moral Project of Childhood","description":"Examines the Protestant origins of motherhood and the child consumer   Throughout history, the responsibility for children's moral well-being has fallen into the laps of mothers. In The Moral Project of Childhood, the noted childhood studies scholar Daniel Thomas Cook illustrates how mothers in the nineteenth-century United States meticulously managed their children's needs and wants, pleasures and pains, through the material world so as to produce the \"child\" as a moral project.   Drawing on a century of religiously-oriented child care advice in women's periodicals, he examines how children ultimately came to be understood by mothers—and later, by commercial actors—as consumers. From concerns about taste, to forms of discipline and punishment, to play and toys, Cook delves into the social politics of motherhood, historical anxieties about childhood, and early children's consumer culture.   An engaging read, The Moral Project of Childhood provides a rich cultural history of childhood.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52485546541329,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52485547688209,"sku":"NLS9781479810260","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781479810260.jpg?v=1759857863"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-ie\/collections\/author-books-by-daniel-thomas-cook.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}