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By Dr Heather Montgomery (The Open University)

15 September 2006

A 'normal' childhood depends on where you live and when you're born. Heather Montgomery wonders how some common British practices might look to other cultures.  Read more : Different cultures, different childhoods

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Montgomery, Heather (2012). Prevailing voices in debates over child prostitution. In: Dewey, Susan and Kelly, Patty eds. Prevailing voices in debates over child prostitution. New York: New York University Press, pp. 146–159.

Montgomery, Heather (2011). Defining child trafficking & child prostitution: the case of Thailand. Seattle Journal for Social Justice, 9(2), pp. 775–811.

Cornock, Marc and Montgomery, Heather (2011). Children's rights in and out of the womb. The International Journal of Childrens Rights, 19(1), pp. 3–19.

Montgomery, Heather (2011). Rumours of child trafficking after natural disasters. Fact, fiction or fantasy? Journal of Children and Media, 5(4), pp. 395–410.

Montgomery, Heather (2010). Child Sex Tourism: Is extra-territorial legislation the answer? In: Botterill, David and Jones, Trevor eds. Tourism and Crime: Key Themes. Oxford, U.K.: Goodfellow Publishing.

Brockliss, Laurence and Montgomery, Heather eds. (2010). Childhood and Violence in the Western Tradition. Oxbow Books, Childhood in Archaeology Monograph, 1. Oxford: Oxbow.

Montgomery, Heather (2010). Focusing on the child, not the prostitute: shifting the emphasis in accounts of child prostitution. Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's and Gender Studies, 8 pp. 166–188.

Montgomery, Heather (2010). The rights of the child: Rightfully mine! In: Kassem, Derek; Murphy, Lisa and Taylor, Elizabeth eds. Key Issues in Childhood and Youth Studies. London: Routledge, pp. 149–158.

Montgomery, Heather (2010). Learning gender roles. In: Lancy, David F.; Bock, John and Gaskins, Suzanne eds. The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood. Lanham: Alta-Mira Press, pp. 287–308.

Montgomery, Heather (2010). Introduction: Childhood and violence in the Western tradition. In: Brockliss, Laurence and Montgomery, Heather eds. Children, violence and the western tradition. Childhood in Archaeology Monograph (1). Oxford, U.K.: Oxbow Books.

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Different cultures, different childhoodsCorbis

By Dr Heather Montgomery (The Open University)

15 September 2006

A 'normal' childhood depends on where you live and when you're born. Heather Montgomery wonders how some common British practices might look to other cultures.  Read more : Different cultures, different childhoods

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Dr Heather Montgomery is a lecturer in childhood studies at The Open University. After a degree in English literature, she completed a PhD in social anthropology at Cambridge, focusing on children in Thailand. Heather's chair of the OU course Childhood 0-18 which looks at childhood from an introductory, interdisciplinary and international perspective. She also writes about anthropology and childhood, children’s rights and representations of children.

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