Author
Woodhouse, Barbara Bennett, 1945-
Title
Hidden in plain sight : the tragedy of children’s rights from Ben Franklin to Lionel Tate / Barbara Bennett Woodhouse.
Published
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008.
Format
Book
Description
xvii, 357 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series
( The public square book series)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-348) and index.
Contents
|How to think about childhood --| |How to think about children’s rights --| |Boys in slavery and servitude : Frederick Douglass --| |Girls at the intersection of age, race and gender : Dred Scott’s daughters --| |Growing up in state custody : "Tony" and "John G." --| |The|printer’s apprentice : Ben Franklin and youth speech --| |Youth in the civil rights movement : John Lewis and Sheyanne Webb --| |Old maids and little women : Louisa Alcott and William Cather --| |Breaking the prison of disability : Helen Keller and the children of "Greenhaven" --| |Hide and survive : Anne Frank and "Liu" --| |Children at work : newsboys, entrepreneurs, and "Evelyn" --| |Telling the scariest secrets: Maya Angelou and "Jeannie" --| |Age and the idea of innocence : "Amal" and Lionel Tate --| |Conclusion: The future of rights.|
ISBN
9780691126906 (alk. paper)
0691126909 (alk. paper)
Title Sub.
Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
Subject
Children’s rights -- United States -- History.
Children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
African American children -- Civil rights -- History.
Series Add.Entry
Public square (Princeton, N.J.)
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