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Title When we were free to be : looking back at a children's classic and the difference it made / edited by Lori Rotskoff & Laura L. Lovett.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (324 pages) : illustrations
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Inspiration -- Prologue / Marlo Thomas -- Free to Be Memories / Dionne Gordon Kirschner -- pt. One Creating a World for Free Children -- The Foundations of Free to Be ... You and Me / Lori Rotskoff -- In the Beginning / Carole Hart -- A Thousand Fond Memories and a Few Regrets / Letty Cottin Pogrebin -- Mommies and Daddies / Carol Hall -- Free to Be ... the Music / Stephen Lawrence -- Thinking about Free to Be / Alan Alda -- Beyond the Fun and Song / Francine Klagsbrun -- Free to Be ... a Child / Gloria Steinem -- How a Preschool Teacher Became Free to Be / Barbara Sprung -- pt. Two Free to Be ... You and Me in Historical Context -- Where the Children Are Free Free to Be ... You and Me, Second-Wave Feminism, and 1970s American Children's Culture / Leslie Paris -- "Little Women's Libbers" and "Free to Be Kids" Children and the Struggle for Gender Equality in the United States / Lori Rotskoff -- Child's Play Boys' Toys, Women's Work, and "Free Children" / Laura L. Lovett -- Getting the Message Audiences Respond to Free to Be ... You and Me / Lori Rotskoff -- pt. Three Parents Are Still People Gender and Child Rearing across Generations -- Genderfication Starts Here Dispatches from My Twins' First Year / Deborah Siegel -- Free to Be Conflicted / Robin Pogrebin -- Ringside Seat at the Revolution / Abigail Pogrebin -- Free to Be the Dads We Want to Be / Jeremy Adam Smith -- Little Bug Wants a Doll / Laura Briggs -- Growing a Free to Be Family / Joe Kelly -- Can William Have a Doll Now? The Legacy of Free to Be in Parenting Advice Books / Karin A. Martin -- pt. Four How Free Are We to Be? Cultural Legacies and Critiques -- Free to Be or Free to Buy? / Peggy Orenstein -- On Square Dancing and Title IX / Miriam Peskowitz -- "William's Doll" and Me / Karl Bryant -- When Michael Jackson Grew Up A Mother's Reflections on Race, Pop Culture, and Self-Acceptance / Deesha Philyaw -- Whose World Is This? / Courtney E. Martin -- Marlo and Me / Becky Friedman -- Free to Be on West 80th Street / Dorothy Pitman Hughes -- A Free Perspective / Patrice Quinn -- When We Grow Up / Trey McIntyre -- The Price of Freedom / Tayloe Mcdonald -- Lessons and Legacies You're Free to Be ... a Champion / Cheryl Kilodavis -- Epilogue / Laura L. Lovett -- Appendix The Songs, Stories, and Skits of Free to Be ... You and Me -- A Content Overview / Laura L. Lovett.
Summary Featuring a prologue by Marlo Thomas, 'When We Were Free to Be' offers an unprecedented insiders' view by the original creators, as well as accounts by activists and educators who changed the landscape of childhood in schools, homes, toy stores, and libraries nationwide.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Children -- Conduct of life -- History.
Children -- Conduct of life.
History.
Self-acceptance -- History.
Self-acceptance.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Subject Children.
Added Author Rotskoff, Lori, editor.
Lovett, Laura L., editor.
Other Form: Print version: When we were free to be. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2012 9780807837238 (DLC) 2012021752 (OCoLC)785863950
ISBN 0807837555 (electronic book)
9780807837559 (electronic book)
9781469601427 (electronic book)
1469601427 (electronic book)
9780807837238 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0807837237 (cloth ; alkaline paper)