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Does authentic personhood exist independently, or is it necessarily tied to contingent cultural arrangements and historical change? This review essay considers 5 recent books in history, psychology, and law that address this question. They also treat development, gender, subjectivity, therapeutic expertise, family welfare policy, and how and why children turn out as they do. These important topics in the history of modern American psychology are equally central to scholarship on childhood and the cultural history of personhood. The books under review (in order of consideration) are the following: J. J. Brumberg, The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls; H. Cravens, Before Head Start: The Iowa Station and America's Children; K. W. Jones, Taming the Troublesome Child: American Families, Child Guidance, and the Limits of Psychiatric Authority; J. R. Harris, The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do; and E. Bartholet, Nobody's Children: Abuse and Neglect, Foster Drift, and the Adoption Alternative.
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