Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Modern" childhoods: adjustment, variety and stress / Peter N. Stearns -- The new disorders of childhood: historical perspectives / Steven Mintz -- Outside the lines: black girls and boys learn about the interconnected worlds of slavery and freedom in nineteenth-century North America / Wilma King -- The private world of women and children: lullabies and nursery rhymes in 19th-century greater Syria / Fruma Zachs -- "The elephant in the room is the role model": managing the paradox of pregnancy in the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish classroom / Orna Blumen with Elka Freedland -- "Nothing material occurred": toward rethinking the history of early American girlhood, 1760-1830 / Sharon Halevi -- "To find a better way to live a life in the world": an auto-ethnographic exploration of an Ibasho project with Chinese immigrant youth in the United States / Tomoko Tokunaga -- Growing gaps in enacted and ideational independence / Yulia Chentsova Dutton and Derya Gürcan-Yildirim.

Globalization has carried vast consequences for the lives of children. It has spurred unprecedented waves of immigration, contributed to far-reaching transformations in the organization, structure, and dynamics of family life, and profoundly altered trajectories of growing up. Equally important, globalization has contributed to the world-wide dissemination of a set of international norms about children's welfare and heightened public awareness of disparities in the lives of children around the world. This book's contributors - leading historians, literary scholars, psychologists, social geographers, and others - provide fresh perspectives on the transformations that globalization has produced in children's lives

English