CONTENTS -- 1 Global Perspectives, Cultural Studies, and the Construction of a Postmodern Childhood Studies -- PART I Childhood Studies and the Values of Corporate Culture -- 2 Making Poverty Pay: Children and the 1996 Welfare Law -- 3 Constructing Childhood in a Corporate World: Cultural Studies, Childhood, and Disney1 -- 4 What Are Beanie Babies Teaching Our Children? -- 5 The Complex Politics of McDonald's and the New Childhood: Colonizing Kidworld -- 6 A Toy Story: The Object(s) of American Childhood1 -- PART II Childhood Studies and Diverse Postmodernisms -- 7 Korean Early Childhood Education: Colonization and Resistance -- 8 Postcolonial Ethnography: An Indian Perspective on Voice and Young Children -- 9 A National System of Childcare Accreditation: Quality Assurance or a Technique of Normalization? -- 10 Children's Linguistic/Cultural Human Rights -- 11 (Euro-American Constructions of) Education of Children ( and Adults) Around the World: A Postcolonial Critique -- EDITORS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.