Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-213) and index.
Ch. 1. Looking forward to a story -- Ch. 2. Deconstructing and reconstructing child knowledge -- Ch. 3. Deconstructing the alembic myth -- Ch. 4. Kidstory: Reconsidering histories of childhood -- Ch. 5. Telling stories of child concern -- Ch. 6. Modern times and great dictators: A genealogy of developmentalism -- Ch. 7. Being had: Biosociology and the production of new children -- Ch. 8. A minority group: The condition of childhood -- Ch. 9. Childhood's end -- overlords and underlings -- Ch. 10. Rearing its ugly head: Children and sexuality -- Ch. 11. On our own doorsteps and beyond our own backyards: Concern about concern