Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Introduction -- Women and Children First and Last: Parallels and Differences between Children's and Women's Studies -- Children's Rights -- Researching Children's Rights to Integrity -- The Family -- A Refuge from Demands or an Arena for the Exercise of Power and Control -- Children's Fictions on Their Future Families -- Television and the Definition of Childhood -- Creating the Capable Body: Discourses about Ability and Effort in Primary and Secondary School Studies -- Children in Action at Home and School -- Responsible Children? Aspects of Children's Work and Employment Outside School in Contemporary UK -- Opportunities for Childhoods in Late Twentieth Century Britain -- Childhood as a Mode of Production -- Notes on Contributors -- References -- Index.