" What is autism and where has it come from? Increased diagnostic rates, the rise of
the'neurodiversity'movement, and growing autism journalism, have recently fuelled autism's …

What will be the fate of childhood in the twenty-first century? Will children increasingly be
living'media childhoods', dominated by the electronic screen? Will their growing access to …

Children's welfare in the last 100 years has been inextricably woven into women's welfare
and women's social condition; to an extent, children's welfare has been subsumed under the …

This internationally appealing book is based on a two-year case study of a group of young
people as they move through their final year of mandatory schooling and into their first year …

First coined by Stanley Cohen in 1972,'moral panic'is a key term in media studies, used to
refer to sudden eruptions of indignant concern about social issues. An occurrence of moral …

Based on research conducted in Britain and the US, The Making of Citizens traces the
dynamic complexities of young people's interpretations of news, and their judgements about …

Drawing on interviews with 140 young British males, this article explores the ways in which
men talk about their own bodies and bodily practices, and those of other men. The specific …

Conceptualising Child-Adult Relations focuses on how children conceptualise and
experience child-adult relations. The authors explore the idea of generation as a key to …

I would recommend the book to anyone with an interest in the family, whether their interest is
in constructs of" old" family values and morals, or in the" new" alternatives, and (possibly …

" This book is unusually rewarding in that its author has pulled off the rare trick of providing
deep philosophical and theoretical underpinnings to a comprehensive reconsideration of …