Table of contents for The American Child: A Cultural Studies Reader edited by Caroline F. Levander and Carol J. Singley

Introduction - Caroline F. Levander and Carol J. Singley

Child's Play - Gillian Brown

Playing at Class - Karen Sánchez-Eppler

The Miniaturizing of Girlhood: Nineteenth-Century Playtime and Gendered Theories of Development - Melanie Dawson

Of Babies, Beasts, and Bondage: Slavery and the Question of Citizenship in Antebellum American Children's Literature - Lesley Ginsberg

Betsy and the Canon - Kelly Hager

Traumatic Realism and the Wounded Child - Jane F. Thrailkill

Constructing the Psychoanalytic Child: Freud's From the History of an Infantile Neurosis - Michelle A. Massé

Black Babies, White Hysteria: The Dark Child in African-American Literature of the Harlem Renaissance - Laura Dawkins

Lewis Hine's Family Romance - Richard S. Lowry

On Boyhood and Public Swimming: Sidney Kingsley's Dead End and Representations of Underclass Street Kids in American Cultural Production - Jeffrey Turner

The Pedagogy of the Popular Front: "Progressive Parenting" for a New Generation, 1918 -1945 - Julia Mickenberg

"Please Let Me Come Home": Homesickness and Family Ties at Early-Twentieth-Century Summer Camps - Leslie Paris

Transformative Terrains: Korean Adoptees and the Social Constructions of an American Childhood - Catherine Ceniza Choy and Gregory Paul Choy

Reel Origins: Multiculturalism, History, and the American Children's Movie - Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez

Notes on Contributors

Index