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Title
Entertaining children: an exploration of the business and politics of childhood
Author/Creator
Arrighi, Gillian;  Emeljanow, Victor
Description
This article explores the conflict between the constructions of childhood and their political/legal implications in the context of the entertainment business, as related to the demands imposed upon children by parents and theatre managers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Once children could move freely both within and between countries, these conflicts and concerns assumed a global dimension. Through a number of case studies, the authors offer some fresh observations about how legal and social imperatives affected the transmission of values about children employed as entertainers between Britain and Australasia during the period from 1870 to the start of the First World War – from the Education Acts of the 1870s to the legislation of 1910–1913 restricting the export of child entertainers.
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New Theatre Quarterly Vol. 28, Issue 1, p. 41-55
Publisher Link
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X12000048
Date
2012
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Keyword(s)
child entertainers;  child legislation;  theatre in Australasia;  politics of childhood
Resource Type
journal article
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http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/934331
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ISSN:1474-0613
Language
eng
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