Title The commodification of childhood : the children's clothing industry and the rise of the child consumer / Daniel Thomas Cook.

Publication Info.	Durham : Duke University Press, [2004]
	©2004

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Moore Stacks	HQ792.U5 C673 2004	Available	---

Description	x, 211 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-200) and index.
Contents	Introduction -- A brief history of childhood and motherhood into the twentieth century -- Merchandising, motherhood, and morality : industry origins and child welfare, 1917-1929 -- Pediocularity : from the child's point of view -- Reconfiguring girlhood : age grading, size ranges, and aspirational merchandising in the 1930s -- Baby booms and market booms : teen and subteen girls in the postwar marketplace -- Concluding remarks.
Subject	Children -- United States -- History.
	Children.
	United States.
	History.
	Adolescence -- United States -- History.
	Adolescence.
	Child consumers -- United States -- History.
	Child consumers.
	Teenage consumers -- United States -- History.
	Teenage consumers.
	Children's clothing industry -- United States -- History.
	Children's clothing industry.
	Mother and child -- United States -- History.
	Mother and child.
	Children.
ISBN	0822332795 cloth alkaline paper
	082233268X paperback alkaline paper