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Peer reviewedStearns, Peter N.; Haggerty, Timothy – American Historical Review, 1991
Examines fear as a social construct. Reviews literature and traces changes in the use of fear to control and socialize children in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Collects evidence from manuals directed to middle-class parents, children's fiction, and popular reading materials, written between 1850-1950. Discusses female images portrayed…
Descriptors: Books, Child Development, Child Rearing, Children
