Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children - Rilegato

Hulbert, Ann

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ISBN 10: 0375401202 ISBN 13: 9780375401206

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2003

Riassunto

Examines twentieth-century child rearing practices, contending that the theories of top authorities reflect popular trends, but fail to ease modern child-rearing anxieties.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Ann Hulbert is the author of <b>The Interior Castle: The Art and Life of Jean Stafford</b>. Her articles and reviews have appeared in many places, including the <i>New York Times Book Review</i>, the <i>New York Review of Books</i>, and<i> The New Republic</i>, where she worked for many years as a senior editor. She graduated from Harvard and spent a year at Cambridge University. She lives with her husband and two children in Washington, D.C.

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ing inquiry into America’s preoccupation with raising children, Ann Hulbert blends biography and critical analysis to probe the personal dramas, the scientific claims, and the social visions of a succession of experts who during the twentieth century aimed to make a science of child rearing. She describes how these pediatricians and psychologists came to be popular advisers, and explores the origins and outcome of their ambitious quest to predict and perfect children’s futures, and to solve the dilemmas of modern mothers and of families in flux.<br><br>The story unfolds like a curious―and often contentious―family saga, featuring an odd couple of presiding experts in each generation: one a stern father figure espousing a nurture-counts-most, “parent-centered” emphasis on discipline; the other a “child-centered” proponent of gentler bonding as a child’s nature develops. They include turn-of-the-century pioneers L. Emmett Holt, whose precise in

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0375401202
• ISBN 13: 9780375401206
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 450
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile