First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Women and Children First and Last: Parallels and Differences between Children's and Women's Studies, Ann Oakley; Children's Rights, Gerison Lansdown; Researching Children's Rights to Integrity, Priscilla Alderson; The Family - A Refuge from Demands or an Arena for the Exercise of Power and Control - Children's Fictions of Their Future Families, Gunilla Hallden; Television and the Definition of Childhood, David Buckingham; Creating the Capable Body: Discourse about the Ability and Effort in Primary and Secondary School Studies, Lise Bird; Children in Action at Home and School, Berry Mayall; Responsible Children? Aspects of Children's Work and Employment Outside School in Contemporary UK, Virginia Morrow; Opportunities for Childhoods in Late 20th Century Britain, Colin Ward; Childhood as a Mode of Production, David Oldman.