Childhood and Markets Infants, Parents and the Business of Child Caring /

• Main Author: Martens, Lydia (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth
• Subjects: Childhood.; Adolescence.; Social groups.; Family.; Culture.; Childhood, Adolescence and Society.; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.; Sociology of Culture.

This book explores how young children and new families are located in the consumer world of affluent societies. The author assesses the way in which the value of infants and monetary value in markets are realized together, and examines how the meanings of childhood are enacted in the practices, narr...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction. 2- Researching Children, Childhood, and Consumer Culture
• 3. Child Caring and Market Interactions
• 4. The Business of Child Caring
• 5. Loving: Emotional Movements
• 6. Protecting: Assembling Infant Embodied Vulnerability
• 7. Purifying: Embodied Cleanliness and Natural Products
• 8. Marketised Pedagogy and the Moralities of Child Caring
• 9. Child Caring Moralities and Market Organisation
• 10. Conclusion. .