The Story of Childhood (43 page)

My agent Tif Loehnis at Janklow Nesbit was an expert hand-holder and panic-manager. Thank you for keeping the faith, especially when I wasn't. Rosemary Davidson and Mary Davis at Bloomsbury were sensitive and exacting editors.

Writing is an isolating business, and I have been blessed with a support group who put up with my tunnel vision and frequent hibernation. Thank you to Sophie Bold, my oldest and dearest friend, Nicola Norton, who lived with the book for a year, Audrey Gillan, Nick Taylor, Amy Owen, and Ros Wynne-Jones, fellow travellers who understand the imperative to put words on paper, Star Molteno, who housed me during my visits to the Bodleian Library in Oxford, Rhidian Davis and Conroy Harris. Old hands Helen Garner and Gyles Brandreth gave me the benefit of their vast experience. Jo Clark helped me with a small victory at the beginning of the project. My family in Australia have been email cheer-leaders. My mother in Glasgow, and my step-father Alistair, provided outings and listening ears when I most needed them.

Any errors or misinterpretations are mine alone.

The following references relate to books and articles from which I have quoted at length. For all other references, there should be enough information in the text to track them down. Any remaining quotations come from interviews which I conducted myself.

Philippe Ariès,
Centuries of Childhood
(Cape, 1962)

Al Aynsley-Green,
Do ye hear the children weeping?
(Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, 2003)

Sigmund Freud,
On Sexuality
(Pelican, 1977)

Tim Gill, ‘Licence and confrontation', in the
Guardian
(13 April 2005)

Alvaro Gils-Robles,
Report, by Mr Alvaro Gils-Robles, Commissioner for Human Rights, on his visit to the United Kingdom
(Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights, 2005)

Barry Goldson, Michael Lavelette and Jim McKechnie (eds.),
Children, Welfare and the State
(Sage, 2002)

Christina Hardyment,
Dream Babies: Child Care from Locke to Spock
(Cape, 1983)

Colin Heywood,
A History of Childhood
(Polity, 2001)

Allison James and Alan Prout,
Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood
(Falmer Press, 1997)

Mary John,
Children's Rights and Power
(Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2003)

Ruth Lister, ‘Growing Pains' (Guardian, 6 October 2005)

John Locke,
Some Thoughts Concerning Education
(Hackett, 1996)

Thomas H. Murray,
The Worth of a Child
(University of California Press, 1996)

Jean Piaget,
The Language and Thought of the Child
(Routledge, 2001)

Plato,
The Republic
(Penguin, 1987)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
Émile
(1762)

William Wordsworth,
Selected Poems
(Everyman, 1983)

Viviana Zelizer,
Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children
(New York, 1985)

Priscilla Alderson,
Institute of Education Centenery Lecture
(Institute of Education, 2003)

Frank Furedi, ‘Why are we afraid for our children?', in
Reared In Captivity: Restoring the Freedom to Play
(Playlink, 1999)

Tim Gill, ‘Managing Risk' (Play Safety Forum, 2002)

Gunilla Hallden, ‘Children's fictions on their future families', in
Children's Childhoods Observed and Experienced
, ed. Berry Mayall (Falmer, 1994)

Mayer Hillman,
One False Move: A Study of Children's Independent Mobility
(Policy Studies Institute, 1990)

Allison James,
Childhood Identities
(EUP, 1993)

Peter Moss and Pat Petrie,
From Children's Services to Children's Spaces
(Routledge Falmer, 2003)

Iona Opie,
The People in the Playground
(Oxford University Press, 1993)

Anthony Storr,
Human Aggression
(Pelican, 1970)

Anthony Storr,
Solitude
, (HarperCollins 1997)

Gillian Thomas and Guy Thompson, ‘A child's place: why environment matters to children' (Green Alliance/Demos, 2004)

Barrie Thorne,
Gender Play
(Open University Press, 1993)

Frances Waksler (ed.),
Studying the Social Worlds of Children
(Falmer Press, 1991)

Roland Barthes,
Camera Lucida
(Vintage, 1993)

J. M. Coetzee,
Boyhood
(Vintage, 1997)

Morton N. Cohen,
Lewis Carroll, A Biography
(Knopf, 1995)

Anne Higonnet,
Pictures of Innocence
(Thames and Hudson, 1998)

James R. Kincaid,
Child-Loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture
(Routledge, 1992)

Susan Moeller,
Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sells Disease, Famine, War and Death
(Routledge, 1998)

Tom Regan, ‘Why child pornography is wrong', in Geoffrey Scarre, (ed.),
Children, Parents and Politics
(Cambridge University Press, 1989)

Susan Sontag,
On Photography
(Penguin, 1979)

David Wilson and Jon Silverman,
Innocence Betrayed: Paedophilia, the Media and Society
(Polity, 2002)

John Bowlby,
Attachment and Loss
, Vol. 1 (Pimlico, 1997)

A. Caspi et al., ‘Role of genotype in the cycle of violence in
maltreated children', in
Science
, Vol. 297 (2002)

Brigid Daniel, Sally Wassell and Robbie Gilligan,
Child Development for Child Care and Protection Workers
(Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1999)

Charles Darwin,
The Origin of Species
(Oxford World's Classics, 1998)

Howard Gardner, ‘The Hundred Languages of Successful Educational Reform' in
Children in Europe
(March 2004)

Sue Gerhardt,
Why Love Matters
(Brunner Routledge, 2004)

Judith Rich Harris,
The Nurture Assumption
(Bloomsbury, 1999)

Penelope Leach,
Ensuring Quality Childcare for Babies and Toddlers
(National Childminding Association, 2005)

Mary Midgley, ‘It's all in the mind', in the
Guardian
(21 September 2002)

Elaine Morgan,
The Descent of the Child
(Souvenir Press, 1994)

Stephen Pinker,
The Blank Slate
(Penguin, 2003)

Matt Ridley,
Nature Via Nurture
(Fourth Estate, 2003)

Stainton Rogers,
Stories of Childhood
(Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992)

Steven Rose, ‘Natural conclusion', in the
Guardian
(19 April 2003)

David Buckingham,
After the Death of Childhood
(Polity, 2000)

Richard Dawkins,
Unweaving the Rainbow
(Penguin, 1999)

Oliver James,
Britain on the Couch
(Arrow, 1998)

Stephen Kline, ‘The making of children's culture', in
The Children's Culture Reader
, Henry Jenkins (ed.) (New York University Press, 1998)

Ellen Seiter,
Sold Separately: Children and Parents in Consumer Cultures
(Rutgers University Press, 1993)

Jules Shropshire and Sue Middleton,
Small Expectations: learning to be poor
(Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 1999)

Sally Tomlinson, ‘Inclusion' in the
Guardian
(19 April 2005)

Shopping Generation
(National Consumer Council, 2005)

Allison James, ‘Confections, concoctions and conceptions', in
The Children's Culture Reader
, Henry Jenkins (ed.) (New York University Press, 1998)

Ann Laybourn,
The Only Child: Myths and Reality
(The Stationery Office Books, 1994)

Blake Morrison,
As If
(Granta, 1998)

Neil Postman,
The Disappearance of Childhood
(Delacorte Press, 1982)

Juliet Schor,
Born to Buy
(Simon and Schuster, 2004)

Marlene B. Schwartz, ‘Childhood Obesity', in
International Association for the Study of Obesity
(2003)

Lionel Shriver,
We Need To Talk About Kevin
(Serpent's Tail, 2005)

Marjorie Taylor,
Imaginary Companions and the Children Who Create Them
(Oxford University Press, 2001)

Marina Warner,
From the Beast to the Blonde
(Chatto and Windus, 1994)

Anthony Bateman, Dennis Brown and Jonathan Pedder,

Introduction to Psychotherapy
, (Routledge, 2002)

John Berger,
Ways of Seeing
(Penguin, 1973)

Anthony Clare, in Gyles Brandreth,
Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Marriage
(Century, 2004)

Stephen Collishaw, Barbara Maughan, Robert Goodman and Andrew Pickles,
Time trends in adolescent well-being
(The Nuffield Foundation, 2004)

Sebastian Kraemer, ‘Promoting resilience: changing concepts of parenting and child care'
International Journal of Child and Family Welfare
, 3 (1999)

Richard Layard,
Happiness
(Allen Lane, 2005)

Katharine A. Phillips,
The Broken Mirror: Understanding and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder
(Oxford University Press Inc., USA, 2005)

Patrick West and Helen Sweeting, ‘Fifteen, female and stressed', in the
Journal of Child Psychology
Vol. 44(3) (2003).

Naomi Wolf,
The Beauty Myth
(Vintage, 1991)

Priscilla Alderson,
Children's Consent to Surgery
(Oxford University Press, 1993)

Priscilla Alderson, ‘Human Rights and democracy in schools: do they mean more than picking up litter and not killing whales?' in
International Journal of Children's Rights
Vol. 7 (1999)

Allen Buchanan and Dan Brock,
Deciding for Others
(Cambridge University Press, 1990)

John Eekelaar, ‘Parental responsibility: state of nature or nature of state?', in the
Journal of Social Work and Family Law
(1992)

Bob Franklin, ‘Children's rights: an introduction', in Bob Franklin, (ed.),
The New Handbook of Children's Rights
(Routledge, 2002)

Stephen Frosh, Ann Phoenix and Rob Pattman,
Young Masculinities
(Palgrave, 2002)

Harry Hendrick, ‘Constructions and reconstructions of British childhood', in James and Prout (eds.),
Constructing and
Reconstructing Childhood
(Falmer Press, 1997)

Judith Hughes, ‘Thinking about children', in Geoffrey Scarre (ed.),
Children, Parents and Politics
(Cambridge University Press, 1989)

Tony Jeffs, ‘Schooling, education and children's rights', in Bob Franklin (ed.),
The New Handbook of Children's Rights
(Routledge, 2002)

Angela Phillips,
How Boys Create Barriers to Learning. Challenging the anti-learning culture in school: an action research project
(Goldsmiths College, 2002)

Jens Qvortrup, Marjatta Bardy, Giovanni Sgritta and Helmut Wintersberger (eds.)
Childhood Matters: Social Theory, Practice and Politics
(Avebury, 1994)

Geoffrey Scarre, ‘Children and paternalism', in
Philosophy Journal
, Vol. 55 (1980)

A Vicious Circle? What the papers say about children in trouble with the law
(Shape; National Children's Bureau, 2004) Martin Amis,
Experience
(Cape, 2000)

Bernard Coard,
How the West Indian Child is Made Educationally Subnormal in the British School System
(Carribean Education and Community Workers' Association, 1971)

Stanley Cohen,
Folk Devils and Moral Panics
(Routledge, 2004)

John Muncie, ‘Institutionalised intolerance: youth justice and the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act', in
Critical Social Policy
, Vol. 19.2 (1999)

Julia Neuberger,
The Moral State We're In
(HarperCollins, 2005)

Richard Sennett, Respect:
The Formation of Character in an Age of Inequality
(Penguin, 2004)

Carolyn Steadman,
Strange Dislocations: Childhood and the
Idea of Human Interiority 1780–1950
(Virago, 1995)

Joan Tronto,
Moral Boundaries
(Routledge, 2004)

Melvin Burgess,
Doing It
(Andersen Press, 2003)

David Evans, ‘Falling angels: the material construction of children as sexual citizens', in
International Journal of Children's Rights
(1994)

Ronald and Juliette Goldman,
Children's Sexual Thinking
(Routledge, 1982)

Dina Haydon and Phil Scraton, ‘Sex education as regulation', in Barry Goldson, Michael Lavalette and Jim McKechnie,
Children, Welfare and the State
(Sage, 2002)

Stevi Jackson,
Childhood and Sexuality
(Basil Blackwell, 1982)

Camille Paglia,
Sexual Personae
(Vintage, 1991)

Benjamin Spock,
Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
(Duel Sloane, 1979)

Laurie and Matthew Taylor,
What Are Children For?
(Short Books, 2003)

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