HIST 1080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tabula Rasa, Secondary Source, Thomas Paine
26 Nov 2018
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~ hist 1080 growing up in north america ~ * child rearing & nation building in north america * Family values is a secondary source, but the excerpts from different stories are primary sources. Prescriptive literature: child rearing is an exemplar of prescriptive literature: prescriptive literatures intend to provide a certain message. Subject: 1780 and 1830 is the timeframe. Argument: middle class americans made child rearing a national project. This article is a form of prescriptive literature aka. advice literature. Shannon and brown are arguing that child rearing is socially constructed, they emphasize the importance of gender. Era of the american revolution as a case study. Childhood was increasingly seen as a distinct stage of life. A good parent must break the child"s will. American revolution: child rearing is a nation building project. Childhood is valued on its own terms. Children do obviously need guidance from their parents, but they also need freedom.
