Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Twenty-first-century childhood and the routine spectacular
  • Introduction: pictures of children: images of childhood
  • There's no such thing as a baby ... or is there? / Superbrats in the charmed circle of home
  • Ignorant pupils and harmonious nature
  • The fantasy of liberation and the demand for rights
  • No future: the threat of childhood and the impossibility of youth
  • Crybabies and damaged children
  • Gender, sexuality and a fantasy for girls
  • Postcript: escape from childhood.