Childhood and Its Discontents: The First Seamus Heaney Lectures

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Joseph Dunne, James Kelly
Liffey Press, 2003 - Family & Relationships - 224 pages
The book aims to advance this inquiry and will be of particular interest to parents, educators and policy-makers. By bringing toghether perspective from psychology, sociology, history and philosophy, the book in intended as a contribution to greater understanding of children themselves and of adults' imaginative and emotional inestments in them. Such understanding, not least of adult failure and neglect, may provide a basis for more enlightened policies towards childhood and greater wellbeing for childen.

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Birth of the Virtual Child Origins of our Contradictory
31
The Cosmopolitan Family Social Adaptation to
51
Suffer Little Children? The Historical Validity of Memoirs
69
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