Children's Childhoods

Berry Mayall has worked as a researcher at the University of London Institute of Education for over twenty years and is Assistant Director of the Social Science Research Unit. Her major research studies have focused on the daily lives of children and their parents and their use of and satisfaction with services available to them. Her current research is on how far children experience school as a health-promoting environment.

• Introduction, Chapter 1. Women and Children First and Last: Parallels and Differences between Children’s and Women’s Studies, Chapter 2. Children’s Rights, Chapter 3. Researching Children’s Rights to Integrity, Chapter 4. The Family—A Refuge from Demands or an Arena for the Exercise of Power and Control — Children’s Fictions on Their Future Families, Chapter 5. Television and the Definition of Childhood, Chapter 6. Creating the Capable Body: Discourses about Ability and Effort in Primary and Secondary School Studies, Chapter 7. Children in Action at Home and School, Chapter 8. Responsible Children? Aspects of Children’s Work and Employment Outside School in Contemporary UK, Chapter 9. Opportunities for Childhoods in Late Twentieth Century Britain, Chapter 10. Childhood as a Mode of Production, Notes on Contributors, References, Index