Comments on: Childhood is back, baby http://www.historiann.com/2008/01/05/childhood-is-back-baby/ History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:05:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: MJ Maynes http://www.historiann.com/2008/01/05/childhood-is-back-baby/#comment-74 MJ Maynes Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:12:20 +0000 http://www.historiann.com/2008/01/05/childhood-is-back-baby/#comment-74 Thanks, Ann, for calling attention to this topic, the new journal, and the Berks sessions. There was a great panel on the history of girlhood at the recent AHA meeting. The audience was smaller than deserved, in part because the session was far from the two main conference hotels and required a shuttle bus trip. Details are below: 81. Girls and Girlhood in Global History Hilton, Georgetown East A session of American Historical Association Chair: Jennifer Helgren, University of the Pacific Topics: Holy Land Girlhood: British Missionaries and Palestinian Girls, 1848–1948 Nancy L. Stockdale, University of North Texas Disobedient Daughters: Intergenerational Conflict over Marriage in Nineteenth-Century Mexico Kathryn A. Sloan, University of Arkansas The Making (and Unmaking) of a Stalinist Girl in the Soviet Union during the 1930s E. Thomas Ewing, Virginia Tech Hawkers and Girlhood in Lagos, Nigeria, 1940–50 Abosede Akibike George, Trinity College The Shifting Status of Middle-Class Malay Girlhood: From "Sisters" to "Seducers" in One Generation Patricia Sloane-White, University of Delaware Thanks, Ann, for calling attention to this topic, the new journal, and the Berks sessions. There was a great panel on the history of girlhood at the recent AHA meeting. The audience was smaller than deserved, in part because the session was far from the two main conference hotels and required a shuttle bus trip. Details are below:

81. Girls and Girlhood in Global History

Hilton, Georgetown East

A session of American Historical Association

Chair:

Jennifer Helgren, University of the Pacific

Topics:

Holy Land Girlhood: British Missionaries and Palestinian Girls, 1848–1948
Nancy L. Stockdale, University of North Texas

Disobedient Daughters: Intergenerational Conflict over Marriage in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
Kathryn A. Sloan, University of Arkansas

The Making (and Unmaking) of a Stalinist Girl in the Soviet Union during the 1930s
E. Thomas Ewing, Virginia Tech

Hawkers and Girlhood in Lagos, Nigeria, 1940–50
Abosede Akibike George, Trinity College

The Shifting Status of Middle-Class Malay Girlhood: From “Sisters” to “Seducers” in One Generation
Patricia Sloane-White, University of Delaware

]]> By: barry levy http://www.historiann.com/2008/01/05/childhood-is-back-baby/#comment-40 barry levy Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:33:46 +0000 http://www.historiann.com/2008/01/05/childhood-is-back-baby/#comment-40 Thanks for appreciation of book review. More importantly, thanks for your book and new project; it sounds most promising. Work on captivity so far by historians, including John Demos who is married to a top psychologist, ignores all the literature on psychological trauma. Thus, Demos has Eunice Williams trying to decide whether or not to remain an Indian much like a person decides what to order on a Chinese resteraunt menu. In truth, look at Ruth Herman's Trauma and Recovery, and see that a child with a forming self, facing the kind of experiences Eunice did and the discontinuity it meant and captivity, would have difficulty forming any workable self and would have no sense of choice -- for years and years. I hope you also explore what Indian culture or cultures and New England and other cultures provided people who were traumatized. It is interesting that many Indian cultures in order to prepare children for sadness prohibited any sort of corporal punishment for children, while the New Englanders thought beating and scaring children a good policy -- also to prepare them for life's sad experiences. Thanks for appreciation of book review. More importantly, thanks for your book and new project; it sounds most promising. Work on captivity so far by historians, including John Demos who is married to a top psychologist, ignores all the literature on psychological trauma. Thus, Demos has Eunice Williams trying to decide whether or not to remain an Indian much like a person decides what to order on a Chinese resteraunt
menu. In truth, look at Ruth Herman’s Trauma and Recovery, and see that a child with a forming self, facing the kind of experiences Eunice did and the discontinuity it meant and captivity, would have difficulty forming any workable self and would have no sense of choice — for years and years. I hope you also explore what Indian culture or cultures and New England and other cultures provided people who were traumatized.
It is interesting that many Indian cultures in order to prepare children for sadness prohibited any sort of corporal punishment for children, while the New Englanders thought beating and scaring children a good policy — also to prepare them for life’s sad experiences.

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