Perils of Protection by Susan Honeyman
Unrecognized in the United States and resisted in many wealthy, industrialized nations, children's rights to participation and self-determination are easily disregarded in the name of protection. In literature, the needs of children are often obscured by protectionist narratives, which redirect attention to parents by mythologizing the supposed innocence, victimization, and vulnerability of children rather than potential agency.In Perils of Protection: Shipwrecks, Orphans, and Children's Rights, author Susan Honeyman traces how the best of intentions to protect children can nonetheless hurt them when leaving them unprepared to act on their own behalf. Honeyman utilizes literary parallels and discursive analysis to highlight the unchecked protectionism that has left minors increasingly isolated in dwindling social units and vulnerable to multiple injustices made possible by eroded or unrecognized participatory rights.
Each chapter centers on a perilous pattern in a different context: ""women and children first"" rescue hierarchies, geographic restriction, abandonment, censorship, and illness. Analysis from adventures real and fictionalized will offer the reader high jinx and heroism at sea, the rush of risk, finding new families, resisting censorship through discovering shared political identity, and breaking the pretenses of sentimentality.
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Reading in the Dark
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Children, Deafness, and Deaf Cultures in Popular Media
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From Wallflowers to Bulletproof Families
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The Rabbit Underground
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The Discursive Material
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Facing Uncertain Futures
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Table Lands
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Children's Books on the Big Screen
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African American Adolescent Female Heroes
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Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction
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Queer Oz
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Caribbean Children's Literature, Volume 2
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Caribbean Children's Literature, Volume 1
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The Velveteen Rabbit at 100
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Atravesados
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Little Red Readings
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L. M. Montgomery's Emily of New Moon
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The Order and the Other
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In Transition
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The Child Gaze
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Reading LGBTQ+ Children's Picture Books
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Oz Behind the Iron Curtain
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Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Beyond the Blockbusters
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Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks
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Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss
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Alt Kid Lit
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Animating the Victorians
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At Arm's Length
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Growing Up Asian American in Young Adult Fiction
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Transforming Girls
Susan Honeyman, Kearney, Nebraska, is professor of English at the University of Nebraska. She is author of Elusive Childhood: Impossible Representations in Modern Fiction; Consuming Agency in Fairy Tales, Childlore, and Folkliterature; and Child Pain, Migraine, and Invisible Disability.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781496819895 |
| ISBN 10 | 1496819896 |
| Title | Perils of Protection |
| Author | Susan Honeyman |
| Series | Children's Literature Association Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University Press of Mississippi |
| Year published | 2019-01-30 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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