01928    a2200301   4500001001100000005001700011008004100028020002200069037003600091040000700127041000800134072001500142072001600157072001500173072001300188072001400201072001300215072002100228072002100249072002800270100001800298245006300316250000600379260003200385300001000417520117500427700002401602104029842720250328151420.0250324022025GB        12           eng    a9781040298428qEA  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 39.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aDSY2thema7 aDSBF2thema7 aDSA2thema7 aDSY2bic7 aDSBF2bic7 aDSA2bic7 aLIT0090002bisac7 aLIT0000002bisac7 a305.2310973090342bisac1 aLucia Hodgson10aBiopolitics of Childhood in the Long American 19th Century  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20250228  a266 p  bThis edited collection contends that the figure of the child is foundational to the workings of biopolitical power yet remains undertheorized. The study of nineteenth-century biopolitics offers a theoretical framework that promises to increase our understanding of how modern democracies manage their subjects. Recent scholarship has invigorated interrogations into forms of state governance that operate at the level of population, a biological phenomenon defined as a group of individuals linked by racialized fictions of biological commonality. This collection seeks to recognize and position critical childhood studies as essential to these interrogations. The essays theorize the role of representations of children and childhood as tools of biopolitical governance in America in the long nineteenth century. They variously explore how the interrelated and overlapping qualities integral to our understandings of the child and childhood are readily deployed by biopolitical power. The collection is organized into three sections that illustrate how these qualities enable the sorting of human beings into populations targeted for reform, exploitation, and disposal.1 aAllison Giffen4B01