| Description |
xiv, 202 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
To touch or not to touch -- The rise of the expert, the fall of the mother -- Breasts versus bottles and the sexual mother -- Babies in bed : to sleep or not to sleep (with your baby) -- Violent touch : feminists, conservatives, and child sexual abuse -- Touching problems |
| Summary |
"Discussing issues of parent-child contact ranging from breastfeeding to sexual abuse, Jean O'Malley Halley traces the evolution of mainstream ideas about touching between adults and children over the course of the twentieth century in the United Sates. Boundaries of Touch shows how arguments about adult-child touch have been politicized, simplified, and bifurcated into "naturalist" and "behaviorist" viewpoints, thereby sharpening certain binary constructions such as mind/body and male/female."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-194) and index |
| Subject |
Boundaries -- Psychological aspects.
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Parent and child.
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Touch -- Psychological aspects.
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| LC no. |
2006100922 |
| ISBN |
0252032128 (hbk.) |
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9780252032127 (hbk.) |
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