Description: An analysis of children's rights in literature
Brief description: Susan Honeyman is professor of English at the University of Nebraska. She is author of Elusive Childhood: Impossible Representations in Modern Fiction; Consuming Agency in Fairy Tales, Childlore, and Folkliterature; Child Pain, Migraine, and Invisible Disability; and Perils of Protection: Shipwrecks, Orphans, and Children's Rights, the latter published by University Press of Mississippi.
Review Quotes: This timely monograph asks us to look beyond the prioritizing of childhood in contemporary culture and to see the negative consequences of "privatizing families, islanding childhood, [and] worshiping children individually but obscuring them as a political interest group" (177). Honeyman skewers many contemporary beliefs about, and aspirations for, children. Her direct language is neatly balanced by scholarly rigor and thorough archival research.--Michelle J. Smith "Children's Literature, Volume 48, 2020"