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  “Sometimes My Kids Seem Like a Bunch of Kangaroos!”

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  Henry Jenkins Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, University of Southern California

  May 07, 2008

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  conceptions of the child embraced pleasure as a positive motivation for exploration and learning. The home was ...
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  “She Might Like to be a Veterinarian”: Parents, Parent Companies, and the Princess Movement

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  Caryn Murphy University of Wisconsin, Madison

  May 06, 2008

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  “‘Save Me Captain Stubing! Skeletor and The Lone Ranger have joined forces and are attacking the General Lee’: The place of play

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  May 09, 2008

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