Childhood and Pethood in Literature and Culture

Offering new perspectives in childhood studies and animal studies, this book critically addresses children and pets in our families, our cultures, and our societies, exploring issues such as protection, discipline, mastery, wildness, play, and domestication. Essays analyze legal discourses, visual culture, literature for children and adults, migration narratives, magazines for children, music, and language socialization to discuss how notions of nationalism, race, gender, heteronormativity, and speciesism shape cultural constructions of children and pets. This global collection shows how discourses linking children and pets are pervasive and work across cultures.