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Oxford University Press, USA
Growing Up in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: A Cultural History of Middle-Class Childhood and Gender
Growing Up in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: A Cultural History of Middle-Class Childhood and Gender
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Why do we send children to school? Who should take responsibility for children's health and education? Should girls and boys be educated separately or together? These questions provoke much contemporary debate, but also have a longer, often-overlooked history. Mary Hatfield explores these
questions and more in this comprehensive cultural history of childhood in nineteenth-century Ireland. Many modern ideas about Irish childhood have their roots in the first three-quarters of the nineteenth century, when an emerging middle-class took a disproportionate role in shaping the definition
of a 'good' childhood, with childhood seen as a fluid concept with a variety of meanings and responsibilities dependent on class, gender, and religious identity. This study deconstructs several key changes in medical care, educational provision, and ideals of parental care. It takes an innovative holistic approach to the middle-class child's social world, by synthesising a broad base of documentary, visual, and material sources, including clothes, books,
medical treatises, religious tracts, photographs, illustrations, and autobiographies. It offers invaluable new insights into Irish boarding schools, the material culture of childhood, and the experience of boys and girls in education.
Author: Mary Hatfield
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 12/03/2019
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780198843429
questions and more in this comprehensive cultural history of childhood in nineteenth-century Ireland. Many modern ideas about Irish childhood have their roots in the first three-quarters of the nineteenth century, when an emerging middle-class took a disproportionate role in shaping the definition
of a 'good' childhood, with childhood seen as a fluid concept with a variety of meanings and responsibilities dependent on class, gender, and religious identity. This study deconstructs several key changes in medical care, educational provision, and ideals of parental care. It takes an innovative holistic approach to the middle-class child's social world, by synthesising a broad base of documentary, visual, and material sources, including clothes, books,
medical treatises, religious tracts, photographs, illustrations, and autobiographies. It offers invaluable new insights into Irish boarding schools, the material culture of childhood, and the experience of boys and girls in education.
Author: Mary Hatfield
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 12/03/2019
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780198843429
About the Author
Mary Hatfield, Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, University College Dublin
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