The Story of Childhood
Growing up in Modern Britain
(Sprache: Englisch)
What is childhood for? And how does it really feel to be growing up in Britain today? A provocative and timely portrait of modern childhood told through the lives of nine very different young people
What is childhood for? And how does it really feel to...
What is childhood for? And how does it really feel to...
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What is childhood for? And how does it really feel to be growing up in Britain today? A provocative and timely portrait of modern childhood told through the lives of nine very different young people
What is childhood for? And how does it really feel to be growing up in Britain today? A provocative and timely portrait of modern childhood told through the lives of nine very different young people
What is childhood for? And how does it really feel to be growing up in Britain today? A provocative and timely portrait of modern childhood told through the lives of nine very different young people
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Childhood. We've all known it, but do we remember what it was like? Can we as adults relate to children or do we misunderstand them? Do we hanker after an unrealistic ideal of innocence that probably never was? To what extent has childhood become an adult-imagined universe? There is so much social anxiety surrounding their behaviour, nutrition, sexuality, consumerism and educational achievement that children may well have become the victims of inappropriate adult perceptions. In today's ASBO-afflicted Britain, Libby Brooks suggests that there is much we don't understand about contemporary childhood. The Story of Childhood explores this idea as Libby Brooks talks to nine very different children between the ages of four and sixteen growing up in Britain today. The public schoolboy, the young offender, the teenage mum, the country lad, for example, talk amusingly, frankly, and sometimes shockingly about their own lives conveying a sense of immediate experience that is thought-provoking and illuminating.
Enriched by insights from literature, sociology, history and psychology, this is a remarkable piece of writing. Anyone who cares about the welfare of children should read this important book.
Autoren-Porträt von Libby Brooks
Libby Brooks was born in Glasgow and studied law at Oxford University. She joined the Guardian newspaper in 1997, and worked as Women's Editor between 1999 and 2001. She won the Catherine Packenham Award for young women writers in 1996, and was named Young Journalist of the Year by the British Press Awards in 1998. She lives in East London and likes murder mysteries.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Libby Brooks
- 2006, 352 Seiten, Maße: 13 x 19,7 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
- ISBN-10: 0747583439
- ISBN-13: 9780747583431
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.07.2006
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „The Story of Childhood “
'This is one of the best pictures of childhood that I've read, and certainly it's an important account of the confused and anxiety-ridden state we're in today' Phillip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials trilogy 'Read this book - Libby Brooks brings childhood's present alive in its historical context, and puts modern supernannies in their historical place' Oliver James, author of They F*** You Up 'A thoroughly enjoyable read' Claire Rayner 'This is a wonderful book. It is a remarkable and important polemic on the state of contemorary childhood ... This book tells us some very disturbing things about ourselves. I hope the policymakers read it' Helena Kennedy QC
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'This is one of the best pictures of childhood that I've read, and certainly it's an important account of the confused and anxiety-ridden state we're in today' Phillip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials trilogy
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