Small wars: the cultural politics of childhood

Abstract

pt. I. Negotiating parenthood and childhood. Infanticide, the spirits of aborted fetuses, and the making of motherhood in Japan / Mary Picone ; Ambiguities lost : fashioning the fetus into a child in Ecuador and the United States / Lynn M. Morgan ; Reproductive partners : doctor-woman relations in Israeli and Canadian IVF contexts / Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli ; Examining surrogacy discourses : between feminine power and exploitation / Elizabeth F.S. Roberts ; Neonatal jaundice : the cultural history of the creation and maintenance of a "disease" of newborns / John A. Brett and Susan Niermeyer ; Mamitis and the traumas of development in a Colonia Popular of Mexico City / Matthew C. Gutmann ; Ethical reflections : taking a walk on the wild side / Meira Weiss -- pt. II. The cultural politics of child survival. Historical perspectives on infant and child mortality in Northwestern Portugal / Caroline B. Brettell ; Children's health as accumulated capital : structural adjustment in the Dominican Republic and Cuba / Linda M. Whiteford ; Bad boys and good girls : the implications of gender ideology for child health in Jamaica / Carolyn Sargent and Michael Harris ; Who is the rogue? Hunger, death, and circumstance in John Mampe Square / Loenard B. Lerer -- pt. III. Small wars : children and violence. "Good mothers", "Babykillers", and fatal child maltreatment / Jill E. Korbin ; Ritual and satanic abuse in England / J.S. La Fontaine ; Institutionalized sex abuse and the Catholic Church / Nancy Scheper-Hughes ; Children in extremely difficult circumstances : war and its aftermath in Croatia / Maria B. Olujic ; Families and children in pain in the U.S. inner city / Philippe Bourgois ; Brazilian apartheid : street kids and the struggle for urban space / Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Daniel Hoffman ; Nothing bad intended : child discipline, punishment, and survival in a shantytown in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / Donna M. Goldstein