Society's child : identity, clothing, and style /

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Author / Contributor: Rubinstein, Ruth P.
Imprint: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, c2000.
Format: Book
Language:English
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Series:Internet Archive Lending Library
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: is childhood disappearing?
  • The dynastic child
  • Marital portraits and paintings of children in seventeenth-century Dutch art
  • The public child: portraying parental power and wealth
  • Children's clothes in colonial America, 1609-1800
  • Children's clothes in the United States, 1800-1860
  • Children's clothes in nineteenth-century England
  • Middle-class and other children: children's clothes in the United States, 1860-1918
  • Establishing societal standards: children's clothes between 1918 and 1950
  • Conformity and social mobility: children's clothes between 1950 and 1965
  • Challenging gender boundaries: children's clothes between 1965 and 1980
  • Themes of success and delight: children's clothes in the 1980s and 1990s
  • Conclusion: children's clothes and depiction of children as socio-cultural constructs.