Childhood by Design

Megan Brandow-Faller is Associate Professor of History at City University of New York Kingsborough, USA. She is the author of The Female Secession: Reclaiming ‘Women’s Art’ at the Viennese Women’s Academy, 1897-1938 (forthcoming).

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Materializing the History of Childhood and ChildrenMegan Brandow-Faller, City University of New York Kingsborough, USAPart I: Inventing the Material Child: Childhood, Consumption and Commodity Culture1. Training the Child Consumer: Play, Toys and Learning to Shop in 18th-Century BritainSerena Dyer, Middlesex University, UK2. Transitional Pandoras: Dolls in the Long 18th-CenturyAriane Fennetaux, University of Paris, Diderot, France3. The (Play)things of Childhood: Mass Consumption and Its Critics in Belle Epoque FranceSarah Curtis, San Francisco State University, USA4. Building Kids: LEGO and the Commodification of CreativityColin Fanning, Philadelphia Museum of Art, USAPart II: Child’s Play? Avant-Garde and Reform Toy Design5. Cultivating Aesthetic Ways of Looking: Walter Crane, Flora's Feast, and the Possibilities of Children's LiteratureAndrea Korda, University of Alberta, Augustana, Canada6. The Unexpected Victory of Charakter-Puppen: Dolls, Artists, Aesthetics and Identity in Early 20th-Century GermanyBryan Ganaway, The College of Charleston, USA7. Work Becomes Play: Toy Design, Creative Play and Unlearning in the Bauhaus LegacyMichelle Millar Fisher, City University of New York, USA8. Simply Child’s Play? Toys, Idealogy,and the Avant-Garde in Socialist Czechoslovakia before 1968Cathleen Giustino, Auburn University, USA9. Reconstructing Domestic Play: The Kaleidoscope HouseKaren Stock, Winthrop University, USA and Katherine Wheeler, University of Miami, USAPart III: Toys, Play and Design Culture as Instruments of Political and Ideological Indoctrination10. Material Culture in Miniature: Nuremberg Kitchens as Inspirational Toys in the Long 19th CenturyJames E. Bryan, University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA11. Making Paper Models in 1860s New Zealand: An Exploration of Colonial Culture Through Child-Made ObjectsLynette Townsend, Ministry for Culture and Heritage, New Zealand12. Toys for Empire? Material Cultures of Children in Germany and German Southwest Africa, 1890 to 1918Jakob Zollman, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Germany13. Public Nostalgia and the Infantilization of the Russian Peasant: Early Soviet Reception of Folk Art ToysMarie Gasper-Hulvat, Kent State University at Stark, USA14. The ‘Appropriate’ Plaything: Searching for the New Chinese Toy, 1910-1960sValentina Boretti, University of London, UKIndex

This volume, edited by Megan Brandow-Faller, is a very welcome addition to the growing literature and the ensuing methodological renewal.