Kinderculture

Shirley R. Steinberg is the director of The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy at McGill University and has been Research Professor at the University of Barcelona. Her most recent books include: Boy Culture: An encyclopaedia 19 Urban Questions: Teaching in the City Diversity and Multiculturalism: A Reader Christotainment: Selling Jesus Through Popular Culture (Westview Press) and award-winning Contemporary Youth Culture encyclopaedia

• 1 Kinderculture: Mediating, Simulacralizing, and Pathologizing the New Childhood Shirley R. Steinberg 2 Teens and Vampires: From BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER to TWILIGHT's Vampire Lovers Douglas Kellner 3 Is Disney Good for Your Kids? How Corporate Media Shape Youth Identity in the Digital Age Henry A. Giroux and Grace Pollock 4 Selling Subculture: An Examination of Hot Topic Sarah Hanks 5 Queer Eye for the Straight-Acting Guy: The Performance of Masculinity in Gay Youth Culture and Popular Culture Dennis Carlson 6 FLUID: Teen and Youth Identity Construction in Cyberspace Donyell L. Roseboro 7 Tween-Method and the Politics of Studying Kinderculture Ingvild Kvale Sorenssen and Claudia Mitchell 8 From Miley Merchandising to Pop Princess Peddling: The Hannah Montana Phenomenon Ruthann Mayes-Elma 9 Corporatizing Sports: Fantasy Leagues, the Athlete as Commodity, and Fans as Consumers Daniel E. Chapman and John A. Weaver 10 Hip Hop and Critical Pedagogy: From Tupac to Master P to 50 Cent and Beyond Greg Dimitriadis 11 McDonald's, Power, and Children: Ronald McDonald/Ray Kroc Does It All for You Joe L. Kincheloe 12 The Book of Barbie: After Half a Century, the Bitch Continues to Have Everything Shirley R. Steinberg 13 HOME ALONE and Bad to the Bone: The Advent of a Postmodern Childhood Joe L. Kincheloe About the Contributors and Editor Notes Index

Praise for Previous Editions: "Thoughtful and illuminating." --Contemporary Sociology "An important contribution to the field of education as it is one of the few books that successfully makes the argument as to why (in very concrete terms) educators must pay attention to cultural studies." --Educational Research "A worthy study by all who work with children." --Educational Leadership "This is a brilliant book, a critical, interpretive undoing of North America and her children. We have waited too long for this analysis of child rearing, media-made children, and the postmodern family. This is the very best of critical pedagogy and cultural studies." --Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign "We have placed the lives of our children in the hands of media capitalists who are redefining and reshaping childhood. It is about time that cultural critics take this issue seriously. Steinberg and Kincheloe's collection opens up the possibility of a rigorous and scholarly debate in what must be one of the most important issues of our time." --Larry Grossberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill