Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies

China's Left-Behind Children

Caretaking, Parenting, and Struggles

Ways of Belonging

Undocumented Youth in the Shadow of Illegality

Between Self and Community

Children’s Personhood in a Globalized South Korea

Children of the Rainforest

Shaping the Future in Amazonia

A World of Many

Ontology and Child Development among the Maya of Southern Mexico

Life in a Cambodian Orphanage

A Childhood Journey for New Opportunities

Disputing Discipline

Child Protection, Punishment, and Piety in Zanzibar Schools

The Children in Child Health

Negotiating Young Lives and Health in New Zealand

Belonging and Becoming in a Multicultural World

Refugee Youth and the Pursuit of Identity

The Queer Aesthetics of Childhood

Asymmetries of Innocence and the Cultural Politics of Child Development

All Together Now

American Holiday Symbolism Among Children and Adults

You've Always Been There for Me

Understanding the Lives of Grandchildren Raised by Grandparents

Youth in Postwar Guatemala

Education and Civic Identity in Transition

Complicated Lives

Girls, Parents, Drugs, and Juvenile Justice

Life after Guns

Reciprocity and Respect among Young Men in Liberia

Children as Caregivers

The Global Fight against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia

Why Afterschool Matters

City Kids

Transforming Racial Baggage

Fantasies of Neglect

Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction

Trafficked Children and Youth in the United States

Reimagining Survivors

Race among Friends

Exploring Race at a Suburban School

Child Soldiers in the Western Imagination

From Patriots to Victims

Childhood in a Sri Lankan Village

Shaping Hierarchy and Desire

Kids in the Middle

How Children of Immigrants Negotiate Community Interactions for Their Families

Defining Student Success

The Role of School and Culture

Life on the Malecón

Children and Youth on the Streets of Santo Domingo

Children of the Occupation

Japan's Untold Story

Ambivalent Encounters

Childhood, Tourism, and Social Change in Banaras, India

Learning Race, Learning Place

Shaping Racial Identities and Ideas in African American Childhoods

Learning the Hard Way

Masculinity, Place, and the Gender Gap in Education

Girlhood

A Global History

Their Time Has Come

Youth with Disabilities on the Cusp of Adulthood

Raising Your Kids Right

Children's Literature and American Political Conservatism

Children and Childhood in World Religions

Primary Sources and Texts

Disrupted Childhoods

Children of Women in Prison

Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work

Contesting Childhood

Autobiography, Trauma, and Memory

Between Good and Ghetto

African American Girls and Inner-City Violence

We Fight To Win

Inequality and the Politics of Youth Activism

Translating Childhoods

Immigrant Youth, Language, and Culture

Children and Childhood in American Religions

Pleasures and Perils

Girls' Sexuality in a Caribbean Consumer Culture

Inventing Modern Adolescence

The Children of Immigrants in Turn-of-the-Century America

Risky Lessons

Sex Education and Social Inequality

Designing Modern Childhoods

History, Space, and the Material Culture of Children

Growing Girls

The Natural Origins of Girls' Organizations in America

Girls in Trouble with the Law

Vietnam's Children in a Changing World

Imagined Orphans

Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London

Armies of the Young

Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism

Rethinking Childhood

At Play in Belfast

Children's Folklore and Identities in Northern Ireland

In Sickness and in Play

Children Coping with Chronic Illness

Race in the Schoolyard

Negotiating the Color Line in Classrooms and Communities

Care and Agency

The Andean Community through the Eyes of Children

Children as Social Butterflies

Navigating Belonging in a Diverse Swiss Kindergarten

Producing Children

Critical Studies in Childhood Creativity