Hidden in plain sight : the tragedy of children's rights from Ben Franklin to Lionel Tate /
From the Publisher: Hidden in Plain Sight tells the tragic untold story of children's rights in America. It asks why the United States today, alone among nations, rejects the most universally embraced human-rights document in history, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Th...
Основен автор: | Woodhouse, Barbara Bennett, 1945- |
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Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
℗♭2008.
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Серия: |
Public square (Princeton, N.J.)
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Print version::
Hidden in plain sight. |
Съдържание:
- Illustrations
- Foreword / Ruth O'Brien
- Preface
- Introduction: Ain't I a person?
- 1: How to think about childhood
- 2: How to think about children's rights
- Part 1: Privacy Principle: Stories Of Bondage And Belonging
- 3: Boys in slavery and servitude: Frederick Douglass
- 4: Girls at the intersection of age, race and gender: Dred Scott's daughters
- 5: Growing up in state custody: "Tony" and "John G"
- Part 2: Agency Principle: Stories Of Voice And Participation
- 6: Printer's apprentice: Ben Franklin and youth speech
- 7: Youth in the civil rights movement: John Lewis and Sheyanne Webb
- Part 3: Equality Principle: Stories Of Equal Opportunity
- 8: Old maids and little women: Louisa Alcott and William Cather
- 9: Breaking the prison of disability: Helen Keller and the children of "Greenhaven"
- Part 4: Dignity Principle: Stories Of Resistance And Resilience
- 10: Hide and survive: Anne Frank and "Liu"
- 11: Children at work: newsboys, entrepreneurs, and "Evelyn"
- Part 5: Protection Principle: Stories Of Guilt And Innocence
- 12: Telling the scariest secrets: Maya Angelou and "Jeannie"
- 13: Age and the idea of innocence: "Amal" and Lionel Tate
- Conclusion: Future of rights
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.