Child psychology and children's literature can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with childhooc!-dealing with it by making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, by teaching it, settling it, ruling over it; in short, child psychology and children's literature as an adult style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over childhood.
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