Raising Your Kids Right

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Price (cloth): $42.95  
Subtitle: Children's Literature and American Political Conservatism
Author: Michelle Ann Abate
Subject: Childhood Studies, Literary Studies, American Studies
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-5173-9
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4798-5
Pages: 260 pages
Publication Date: September 2011 (First Paperback Edition)
Series: Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies

Praise for Raising Your Kids Right:

"Few people are aware of the right's attempts to use children's literature ideologically to indoctrinate American youth. While this book will certainly be valuable to scholars of children's literature and education, those outside of academe should also sit up and take notice."
—Philip Nel, coeditor of Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's Literature

Description:

Raising Your Kids Right dispels the dismissive attitude that narratives for young readers are unworthy of serious political study. Michelle Ann Abate examines a variety of texts that offer information, ideology, and even instructions on how to raise kids right, not just figuratively, but politically. Highlighting the works of William Bennett, Lynne Cheney, Bill O'Reilly, and others, she brings together such diverse fields as cultural studies, literary criticism, political science, childhood studies, brand marketing, and the cult of celebrity.

MICHELLE ANN ABATE is an associate professor in the English department at Hollins University. She is the author of Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History, and the coeditor of the journal Children's Literature.

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Price (paper): $24.95
Price (cloth): $42.95