The Child to Come

The Child to Come
Author: Rebekah Sheldon
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1452953082

Generation Anthropocene. Storms of My Grandchildren. Our Children’s Trust. Why do these and other attempts to imagine the planet’s uncertain future return us—again and again—to the image of the child? In The Child to Come, Rebekah Sheldon demonstrates the pervasive conjunction of the imperiled child and the threatened Earth and blisteringly critiques the logic of catastrophe that serves as its motive and its method. Sheldon explores representations of this perilous future and the new figurations of the child that have arisen in response to it. Analyzing catastrophe discourse from the 1960s to the present—books by Joanna Russ, Margaret Atwood, and Cormac McCarthy; films and television series including Southland Tales, Battlestar Galactica, and Children of Men; and popular environmentalism—Sheldon finds the child standing in the place of the human species, coordinating its safe passage into the future through the promise of one more generation. Yet, she contends, the child figure emerges bound to the very forces of nonhuman vitality he was forged to contain. Bringing together queer theory, ecocriticism, and science studies, The Child to Come draws on and extends arguments in childhood studies about the interweaving of the child with the life sciences. Sheldon reveals that neither life nor the child are what they used to be. Under pressure from ecological change, artificial reproductive technology, genetic engineering, and the neoliberalization of the economy, the queerly human child signals something new: the biopolitics of reproduction. By promising the pliability of the body’s vitality, the pregnant woman and the sacred child have become the paradigmatic figures for twenty-first century biopolitics.

The Outlook

The Outlook
Author: Lyman Abbott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1060
Release: 1898
Genre: United States
ISBN:

The Children

The Children
Author: Edith Wharton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1997-09-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0684831554

"Early twentieth-century American author Edith Wharton's 1928 novel about a group of seven step-siblings who strike up a relationship with a solitary bachelor on a yacht while hoping that their parents' reconciliation lasts". *** "One of Mrs. Wharton's latest novels, this is a story of expatriate Americans in the 1920s. Its theme is the predicament of children whose rich, pleasure-mad parents progress through marriages and divorces as casually as they flit around the fashionable European resorts of the period."

Children

Children
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1971
Genre: American periodicals
ISBN:

The Child

The Child
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1937
Genre: Child care
ISBN:

From the Soul of A Battered Child Come the Songs of My Childhood

From the Soul of A Battered Child Come the Songs of My Childhood
Author: Lucy Aponte
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 31
Release: 2005-07
Genre:
ISBN: 1411668715

A gripping and powerful tale of child abuse, takes you on a roller coaster ride of emotions. Illustrations by the artist combine with the narratives to touch the heart and the soul. Told in poetic and narrative forms, you'll recognize the school child's songs and poems, twisted to convey the raw brutality of child battery.

Moll Flanders

Moll Flanders
Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher: Tor Classics
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1999-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466804696

Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title—offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of Moll Flanders includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Nancy Springer. The conditions of Moll Flanders' birth could not have been more depressing. Her mother was a petty thief who was caught and sent to the notorious Newgate prison in London. It was in that prison that Moll was born. Deemed an orphan, Moll was later sent to apprentice as a servant with a respectable family. Moll has designs on a life better than serving others. But as she discovers, independence and fortune are not easy to come by. A string of dreadful misfortunes--including five luckless marriages--force Moll into the streets, where her only means of support is a life of crime. But Moll refuses to give up: she will succeed! Moll Flanders is a triumphant portrait of a strong-willed woman determined to make her own way in eighteenth-century England. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Sermons

Sermons
Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 504
Release: 1857
Genre:
ISBN:

Children Come First

Children Come First
Author: Howard H. Irving
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 155488795X

For three decades Dr. Howard H. Irving has championed the use of divorce mediation outside the adversarial court system to save couples and their children the bitterness of winner-takes-all custody battles. Here, he calls on his vast experience of mediating more than 2,000 cases to help couples contemplating divorce.