| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 388 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Part I. Parenting culture -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Intensive parenting and the expansion of parenting -- 3. Experts and parenting culture -- 4. The politics of parenting -- 5. Who cares for children? The problem of intergenerational contact -- Part II. Case studies in parental determinism -- 6. Policing pregnancy: the pregnant woman who drinks -- 7. The problem of 'attachment': the 'detached' parent -- 8. Babies' brains and parenting policy: the insensitive mother -- 9. Intensive fatherhood? The (un)involved dad -- 10. The double bind of parenting culture: helicopter parents and cotton wool kids -- Part III. Parenting and the pandemic -- 11. 'Parenting' after Covid-19: when the quantity of 'quality time' becomes untenable -- 12. From safeguarding to childism? Covid-19 and the school closures debate --13. Pregnancy and vaccination: the precautionary principle and and parenting culture in Covid times -- 14. Conclusion -- Correction to: Parenting Culture Studies -- Appendix: Data set for media analysis (Chapter 13) -- Index |
| Summary |
By retracing the way in which maternal and parental work is supervised by a whole series of experts, this quartet of researchers lifts the veil on what parenting means today. The first edition, published a decade ago, was already a masterpiece and influenced the work of many. This updated edition is essential for anyone interested in the politicization of parenting issues. Claude Martin, Emeritus Research Professor, National Centre for Scientific Research, France Future historians will wonder why more researchers were not documenting and refuting the idea that today's kids are more fragile and helpless than any before them, and ditto, their parents. These authors peer behind the endless parenting advice, warnings and best practices to show us what is really going on when it comes to childhood, love, humanity, and the family. Lenore Skenazy, President, Let Grow, USA, and Author of Free-Range Kids Now in its second edition, Parenting Culture Studies seeks to understand how parenting is taken as a particular mode of childrearing that reflects broader social trends. Ten years after the initial volume's groundbreaking publication, the authors once again closely examine how the main aspects of parenting have been established, explored, and critically evaluated. Chapters revisit phenomena such as intensive parenting and politics around parenting, as well as controversial issues including policing pregnant women's bodies and parental determinism. In addition to updates throughout the volume, including those addressing literature that has built from the books original publication, the book features a new third part discussing parents dealing with risk assessment, school closures, contradictory care arrangements, and vaccine hesitancy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ellie Lee is Director of the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies and Professor of Family and Parenting Research at University of Kent, UK. Jennie Bristow is a Reader in Sociology at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. Charlotte Faircloth is Associate Professor of Social Science in the UCL Social Research Institute at University College London, UK. Jan Macvarish is Visiting Research Fellow in the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies at the University of Kent, UK |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed April 17, 2024) |
| Subject |
Parenting.
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Parent and child.
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Parent and child
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Parenting
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bristow, Jennie, author.
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Faircloth, Charlotte, author.
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Macvarish, Jan, author.
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| ISBN |
9783031441561 |
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3031441567 |
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