Lost Freedom: The Landscape of the Child and the British Post-War SettlementOUP Oxford, 28.11.2013 - 272 Seiten Lost Freedom addresses the widespread feeling that there has been a fundamental change in the social life of children in recent decades: the loss of childhood freedom, and in particular, the loss of freedom to roam beyond the safety of home. Mathew Thomson explores this phenomenon, concentrating on the period from the Second World War until the 1970s, and considering the roles of psychological theory, traffic, safety consciousness, anxiety about sexual danger, and television in the erosion of freedom. Thomson argues that the Second World War has an important place in this story, with war-borne anxieties encouraging an emphasis on the central importance of a landscape of home. War also encouraged the development of specially designed spaces for the cultivation of the child, including the adventure playground, and the virtual landscape of children's television. However, before the 1970s, British children still had much more physical freedom than they do today. Lost Freedom explores why this situation has changed. The volume pays particular attention to the 1970s as a period of transition, and one which saw radical visions of child liberation, but with anxieties about child protection also escalating in response. This is strikingly demonstrated in the story of how the paedophile emerged as a figure of major public concern. Thomson argues that this crisis of concern over child freedom is indicative of some of the broader problems of the social settlements that had been forged out of the Second World War. |
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1 The Image of Lost Freedom | 21 |
2 The Shadow of War | 47 |
3 Bowlbyism and the PostWar Settlement | 79 |
4 Television and a Virtual Landscape for the Child | 106 |
Traffic Play and Safety | 133 |
6 Sexual Danger and the Age of the Paedophile | 153 |
7 Radicalization and Crisis of the PostWar Landscape Settlement | 184 |
Conclusion | 223 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
adult adventure playground age of consent anxiety attracted B. S. Johnson Bowlby’s Bowlbyism boys Britain broader cent centred century challenge chapter chil Child Sexual Abuse child sexuality child’s childcare Children’s Rights children’s television Colin Ward concern context culture danger debate delinquency deprivation Donald Winnicott early emerged emotional environment environmental education evacuation Evan Durbin experience fact films focus girls highlighted Hilde Himmelweit Himmelweit important increasingly issue John Bowlby Journal landscape Leila Berg liberation London lost freedom ment Mental Health middle-class mothers NSPCC nursery offered Oxford paedophile paedophilia parents particularly period perspective photographs Picture Post play political post-war settlement problem programmes protection psychological radical reflected relation response road safety role Second World Second World War Sesame Street sexual abuse shift society space story street suggested tion traffic urban vandalism Ward Ward’s wartime welfare Winnicott working-class