Table of Contents:
- Part I: Representations of childhood and adolescence in France. 1. ʹEgo documentsʹ and the French historian in the twenty-first century; 2. Into the limelight: new conceptions of childhood and adolescence; 3. Growing up in theory and in practice; 4. Turning points in a life: the autobiographical model
- Part II: Growing up among family and friends. 5. The demographic context: family forms in modern France; 6. Of mothers and motherhood; 7. Of fathers, fatherhood, kin and discipline; 8. ʹSmall memoriesʹ from childhood; 9. The society of children and youth