Children in Time and Place

• Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. A Proposal: 1. Studying children in a changing world; Part II. Historical and Life transitions: 2. America's home front children in World War II; 3. Rising above life's disadvantage: from the Great Depression; 4. Child development and human diversity; Part III. Life Transitions Across Historical Time: 5. Problem girls: observations on past and present; 6. Continuity and change in symptom choice: anorexia; 7. Fathers and child rearing; Part IV. The Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration: 8. The workshop enterprise; 9. The elusive historical child: ways of knowing the child of history and psychology; 10. A paradigm in question: commentary; 11. Epilogue; Bibliography; Author index; Subject index.

' … interesting and dynamic, particularly because it addresses not only the points in commom, the past, present and possible convergence of psychology and history in addressing the development of children, but because it expresses and represents the tensions between these disciplines as well.' Reviews in Anthropology