Joanne Faulkner lectures in philosophy and women’s and gender studies at the University of New South Wales.Magdalena Zolkos is senior research fellow at the Institute for Social Justice, Australian Catholic University.

• Introduction, Joanne Faulkner and Magdalena ZolkosPart One: The Child in MemoryChapter One: Locating the Child within the History of Childhood, Shurlee SwainChapter Two: Theorizing Childhood in Second-Wave Feminism: A Re-Reading of Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch (1970), Isobelle Barrett MeyeringChapter Three: “Ancestral Guilt”: Childhood as Redemption and the Question of Nazi Descendancy in German Cultural Memory, Magdalena Zolkos Part Two: The Child in ImaginationChapter Four: The Nature of the Child and the Child of Nature: Historical and Contemporary Continuities, Gail Hawkes and Danielle EganChapter Five: Humanity’s Little Scrap Dealers: The Child at Play in Modern Philosophy and Implications for Sexualization Discourse, Joanne FaulknerChapter Six: Childhood, Character, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Elizabeth DrummPart Three: The Institutionalized ChildChapter Seven: Investment, Risk, and Other Ways of Thinking About Children, kylie valentineChapter Eight: Discursive Children: Stolen or Just Forgotten? Racial Politics and the Figure of “the Child” in an Australian Culture of Liberalism, Emily SoperAbout the Contributors

Critical Childhood Studies and the Practice of Interdisciplinarity is a welcome contribution to childhood studies scholarship, particularlybecause of its explicit embrace of the field’s diverse epistemological practicesand commitments. Its wide-reaching scope attests to the importance of childrenand childhood across multiple disciplines, and each chapter’s extensivebibliography represents a network of connected resources to facilitate andanchor ongoing critical engagement from readers. The book’s central promiseto explore the notion of disciplinarity itself surfaces across individual contributions,and the book may find especially relevant application within thechildhood studies classroom.

Joanne Faulkner lectures in philosophy and women’s and gender studies at the University of New South Wales.Magdalena Zolkos is senior research fellow at the Institute for Social Justice, Australian Catholic University.

• Introduction, Joanne Faulkner and Magdalena ZolkosPart One: The Child in MemoryChapter One: Locating the Child within the History of Childhood, Shurlee SwainChapter Two: Theorizing Childhood in Second-Wave Feminism: A Re-Reading of Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch (1970), Isobelle Barrett MeyeringChapter Three: “Ancestral Guilt”: Childhood as Redemption and the Question of Nazi Descendancy in German Cultural Memory, Magdalena Zolkos Part Two: The Child in ImaginationChapter Four: The Nature of the Child and the Child of Nature: Historical and Contemporary Continuities, Gail Hawkes and Danielle EganChapter Five: Humanity’s Little Scrap Dealers: The Child at Play in Modern Philosophy and Implications for Sexualization Discourse, Joanne FaulknerChapter Six: Childhood, Character, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Elizabeth DrummPart Three: The Institutionalized ChildChapter Seven: Investment, Risk, and Other Ways of Thinking About Children, kylie valentineChapter Eight: Discursive Children: Stolen or Just Forgotten? Racial Politics and the Figure of “the Child” in an Australian Culture of Liberalism, Emily SoperAbout the Contributors

Critical Childhood Studies and the Practice of Interdisciplinarity is a welcome contribution to childhood studies scholarship, particularlybecause of its explicit embrace of the field’s diverse epistemological practicesand commitments. Its wide-reaching scope attests to the importance of childrenand childhood across multiple disciplines, and each chapter’s extensivebibliography represents a network of connected resources to facilitate andanchor ongoing critical engagement from readers. The book’s central promiseto explore the notion of disciplinarity itself surfaces across individual contributions,and the book may find especially relevant application within thechildhood studies classroom.

Joanne Faulkner lectures in philosophy and women’s and gender studies at the University of New South Wales.Magdalena Zolkos is senior research fellow at the Institute for Social Justice, Australian Catholic University.

• Introduction, Joanne Faulkner and Magdalena ZolkosPart One: The Child in MemoryChapter One: Locating the Child within the History of Childhood, Shurlee SwainChapter Two: Theorizing Childhood in Second-Wave Feminism: A Re-Reading of Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch (1970), Isobelle Barrett MeyeringChapter Three: “Ancestral Guilt”: Childhood as Redemption and the Question of Nazi Descendancy in German Cultural Memory, Magdalena Zolkos Part Two: The Child in ImaginationChapter Four: The Nature of the Child and the Child of Nature: Historical and Contemporary Continuities, Gail Hawkes and Danielle EganChapter Five: Humanity’s Little Scrap Dealers: The Child at Play in Modern Philosophy and Implications for Sexualization Discourse, Joanne FaulknerChapter Six: Childhood, Character, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Elizabeth DrummPart Three: The Institutionalized ChildChapter Seven: Investment, Risk, and Other Ways of Thinking About Children, kylie valentineChapter Eight: Discursive Children: Stolen or Just Forgotten? Racial Politics and the Figure of “the Child” in an Australian Culture of Liberalism, Emily SoperAbout the Contributors

Critical Childhood Studies and the Practice of Interdisciplinarity is a welcome contribution to childhood studies scholarship, particularlybecause of its explicit embrace of the field’s diverse epistemological practicesand commitments. Its wide-reaching scope attests to the importance of childrenand childhood across multiple disciplines, and each chapter’s extensivebibliography represents a network of connected resources to facilitate andanchor ongoing critical engagement from readers. The book’s central promiseto explore the notion of disciplinarity itself surfaces across individual contributions,and the book may find especially relevant application within thechildhood studies classroom.