Intro -- PARENTING THE CRISIS -- Contents -- About the author -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 'Where are the parents?' -- Crisis talk and crisis figures -- Neoliberal crisis: policing to parenting -- Neoliberal citizenship and the eugenic imagination -- Gendering parent-blame -- The structure of this book -- 2. Mothercraft to Mumsnet -- 'The mother of all elections' -- The rise of mothercraft -- Feminist anger at the experts -- Celebrating the advised mother -- Postfeminist parent pedagogy -- Mumsnet and neoliberal motherhood -- 3. The cultural industry of parent-blame -- Imagining a 'parenting deficit' -- Enter Supernanny -- The 'devil version of Mary Poppins' -- Standing up to (and sitting down with) Supernanny -- Distinction through parent pedagogy -- New Labour's civilising project -- 4. Parenting -- with feeling -- An 'army of Supernannies' -- Intimacy expertise: the political is personal -- What kind of parent? 'Pure relationships' and the sensitive mother -- Parental subjects -- Reinventing 'tough love' -- Tough love in the supernanny state -- 5. Parenting in austere times: warmth and wealth -- An 'ordinary' family -- 'Broken Britain': public spending as waste -- Blitz spirit and ration romances -- Austerity is good for you! The happy housewife -- Permanent austerity -- 6. Weaponising parent-blame in post-welfare Britain -- Crafting commonsense: the Philpott case -- Weaponising policy: the politics of disgust -- Televising the 'benefit brood' -- A disgust-consensus: from nanny state to daddy state -- The end of entitlement -- 7. Epilogue: 'Mummy Maybot': a new age of authoritarian neoliberalism -- The vicar's daughter -- 'Bringing the poor to heel': the future of social insecurity -- References -- Index
Summary
This book examines how pathologising ideas of failing, chaotic and dysfunctional families create a powerful consensus that Britain is in the grip of a 'parent crisis' and are used to justify increasingly punitive state policies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
In English
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 13, 2018)
