Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Private persons versus public someones : class, gender and politics in England, 1780-1850 / Catherine Hall
  • 3. The other voice : women, children and nineteenth-century spiritualism / Alex Owen
  • 4. Public and private children : infant education in the 1820s and 1830s / Karen Clarke
  • 5. State and language : Peter Pan as written for the child / Jacqueline Rose
  • 6. 'The time of your life' : the meaning of the school story / Gill Frith
  • 7. 'Listen, how the caged bird sings' : Amarjit's song / Carolyn Steedman
  • 8. Constructing motherhood : the persuasion of normal development / Cathy Urwin
  • 9. On the regulation of speaking and silence : subjectivity, class and gender in contemporary schooling / Valerie Walkerdine