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SHCY NEWSLETTER
Number 2 (Summer 2003)

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History of Childhood and Youth: Selected Recent Articles and Monographs
Luke Springman

In compiling this list of recently published articles and books, I searched in the following on-line databases: Ebsco Host: Academic Search Premier; OCLC: First Search; and Ingenta. I entered several combinations of keywords (including but not limited to "history," youth," and "childhood") and varied the search using defining features, such as boolean operators and form-defined search fields. I further limited the search to publications after the year 2000. These searches returned listings from several hundred to around two thousand entrees. The majority of entrees dealt with contemporary social, psychological and educational issues in the United States, rather than with scholarship more germane to the historical study of childhood and youth. Arriving at a listing related specifically to the history of young people therefore required interpretation of many titles, or reading abstracts where those were available. The principle of organization below depends primarily on geography, except where the titles of articles and books suggest a larger area of topical research.

This bibliography makes no pretense of covering all the important recent scholarship. I hope that readers will submit references for inclusion in subsequent issues of the newsletter, and I apologize to those whose publications I missed. 

European Continent and Scandanavia: 

Franzén, Mats. "The Emergence of a Modern Youth Culture: The Swedish 1930s." Acta Sociologica 45, 1 (2002): 47-57.

McDougall, Alan. "The Liberal Interlude: SED youth policy and the Free German Youth (FDJ), 1963-65." Debatte: Review of Contemporary German Affairs 9, 2 (2001): 123-156.

Mikkelsen, Flemming; Karpantschof, Rene. "Youth as a Political Movement: Development of the Squatters' and Autonomous Movement in Copenhagen." International Journal of Urban & Regional Research 25, 3 (2001): 593-609.

Moseley, Marcus. "Life, Literature: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Interwar Poland." Jewish Social Studies 7, 3 (Spring 2001): 1-52.

Neyzi, Leyla. "Object of Subject? The Paradox of Youth' in Turkey." International Journal of Middle East Studies 33, 3 (2001): 411-433.

Williams, John Alexander. "Ecstasies of the Young: Sexuality, the Youth Movement, and Moral Panic in Germany on the Eve of the First World War." Central European History 34, 2 (2001): 163-190.

United States: 

Barone, Dennis. "The Adolescent Male Personality and American Youth Films." Australian Screen Education 24 (Spring 2000): 20-26.

DiGirolamo, Vincent. "Newsboy Funerals: Tales of Sorrow and Solidarity in Urban America." Journal of Social History 36, 1 (Fall 2002): 5-31.

Finkelstein, Barbara. "A Crucible of Contradictions: Historical Roots of Violence against Children in the United States." History of Education Quarterly 40, 1 (Spring 2000): 1-22.

Gland, Kenneth C.; Lamb, Vicki L.; Mustillo, Sarah Kahler. "Child and Youth Well-being in the United States, 1975-1998: Some Findings from a New Index." Social Indicators Research 56, 3 (2001): 241-321.

Hirshbein, Laura Davidow. "The Flapper and the Fogy: Representations of Gender and Age in the 1920s." Journal of Family History 26, 1 (2001): 112-138.

Maira, Sunaina. Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002.

Mattson, Kevin. "Did Punk Matter?: Analyzing the Practices of a Youth Subculture During the 1980s." American Studies 42, 1 (Spring 2001): 69-98.

Reef, Catherine. Childhood in America. New York: Facts on File, 2002.

Richardson, John G. "Historical Context, Professional Authority, and Discourses of Risk: Child Guidance and Special Education." Teachers College Record 104, 3 (2002): 563-586.

Tozer, Steven; Violas, Paul C.; Senese, Guy B. School and Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Boston : McGraw-Hill, 2002.

Zieger, Gay Pitman. For the Good of the Children: A History of the Boys and Girls Republic. Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2003.

 Great Britain and Empire: 

Collins, Sylvia; Hornsby-Smith, Michael P. "The Rise and Fall of the YCW in England." Journal of Contemporary Religion 17, 1 (2002), 87-101.

Ellis, Catherine. "The Younger Generations: The Labour Party and the 1959 Youth Commission." Journal of British Studies 41, 2 (2002): 199-232.

Foss, Michael. Out of India: A Raj Childhood. London: Michael O'Mara, 2002, 2001

Latham, Emma. "The Liverpool Boys' Association and the Liverpool Union of Youth Clubs: Youth Organizations and...."Journal of Contemporary History 35, 3 (2000): 423- 438.

Parr, Joy; Janovicek, Nancy. Histories of Canadian Children and Youth. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Sherington, Geoffrey. "'A Better Class of Boy': The Big Brother Movement, Youth Migration and Citizenship of Empire." Australian Historical Studies 32, 120 (2002): 267-286.

Latin America and the Caribbean: 

Eire, Carlos M. N. Waiting for Snow in Havana. Confessions of a Cuban Boy. Waterville: Thorndike Press, 2003.

Hecht, Tobias. Minor Omissions: Children in Latin American History and Society. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. 

Russia and the Soviet Union: 

Gorsuch, Anne E. Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.

Kirschenbaum, Lisa A. 'Small Comrades': Revolutionizing Childhood in Soviet Russia, 1917-1932. New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2000.

Kryshtanovskaya, Olga; White, Stephen. "Generations and the Conversion of Power in Postcommunist Russia." Perspectives on European Politics & Society 3, 2 (2002): 229-245.

Kuhr-Korolev, Corinna; Plaggenborg, Stefan; Wellmann, Monica. Eds. Sowjetjugend, 1917-1941: Generation zwischen Revolution und Resignation. Essen: Klartext-Verlagsges, 2001.

Kuromiya, Hiroaki. "'Political Youth Opposition in Late Stalinism': Evidence and Conjecture." Europe-Asia Studies 55, 4 (2003): 631-639.

Trice, Tom. "Rites of Protest: Populist Funerals in Imperial St. Petersburg, 1876-1878." Slavic Review 60, 1 (Spring 2001): 50-75. 

The Holocaust and World War II: 

Bosmajian, Hamida. Sparing the Child: Grief and the Unspeakable in Youth Literature about Nazism and the Holocaust. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Cohen, Raya. "'Against the Current': Hashomer Hatzair in the Warsaw Ghetto." Jewish Social Studies 7, 1 (Fall 2000): 63-81.

Fishman, Sarah. The Battle for Children: World War II, Youth Crime, and Juvenile Justice in Twentieth-Century France. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002.

Knopp, Guido. Hitler's Children. Stroud: Sutton, 2002.

Kokkola, Lydia. Representing the Holocaust in Youth Literature. New York : Routledge, 2003.

Mass Observation Archive: Papers from the Mass-Observation Archive at the University of Sussex. Pt. 6, Topic Collections: The Home Front During World War Two: Evacuation, Youth, Children & Education, Women in Wartime, Anti-Semitism. Marlborough : Adam Matthew, 2002.

Samuel, Wolfgang W. E. German Boy: A Child in War. London: Sceptre, 2002.

Wallace, Claire; Alt, Raimund. "Youth Cultures under Authoritarian Regimes." Youth & Society 32, 3 (2001): 275-303.

Culture and Literature: 

Boehrer, Bruce. "The Classical Context of Ben Jonson's 'Other Youth.'" Studies in English Literature 43, 2 (Spring 2003): 439-459.

Heins, Marjorie. Not in Front of the Children: "Indecency," Censorship and the Innocence of Youth. New York : Hill and Wang, 2001.

Hintz, Carrie; Ostry, Elaine. Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Koops, W.; Zuckerman, Michael. Beyond the Century of the Child: Cultural History and Developmental Psychology. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.

Lundin, Anne H.; Weigand, Wayne. Defining Print Culture for Youth: The Cultural Work of Children's Literature. Westport: Libraries Unlimited, 2003.

Tzur, Eli. "HaKibbutz Ha'Artzi, Engaged Art, and the Historical Background." Israel Studies 6, 2 (Summer 2001): 54-65.

 Theories of Youth: 

Ahmadi, Amir. "On the Indispensability of Youth for Experience." Time & Society 10, 2/3 (2001): 91-113.

Hollands, Robert. "Divisions in the Dark: Youth Cultures, Transitions and Segmented Consumption Spaces in the Night-time Economy." Journal of Youth Studies 5, 2 (2002): 153-172.

Mizen, Phillip. "Putting the Politics Back into Youth Studies: Keynesianism, Monetarism and the Changing State of Youth." Journal of Youth Studies 5, 1 (2002): 5-21.

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