Routledge Revivals: Language, Gender and Childhood (1985)

Carolyn Steedman, Cathy Urwin, Valerie Walkerdine

• Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction 2 Private persons versus public someones: class, gender and politics in England, 1780-1850 Catherine Hall 3 The other voice: women, children and nineteenth-century spiritualism Alex Owen 4 Public and private children: infant education in the 1820s and 1830s Karen Clark 5 State and language: Peter Pan as written for the child Jacqueline Rose 6 ‘The time of your life’: the meaning of the school story Gill Frith 7 ‘Listen, how the caged bird sings’: Amarjit’s song Carolyn Steedman 8 Constructing motherhood: the persuasion of normal development Cathy Urwin 9 On the regulation of speaking and silence: subjectivity, class and gender in contemporary schooling Valerie Walkerdine; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index