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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456900503321

Titolo

Parenting after the century of the child [[electronic resource] ] : travelling ideals, institutional negotiations and individual responses / / edited by Tatjana Thelen and Haldis Haukanes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, 2010

ISBN

1-317-08413-6

1-317-08412-8

1-282-52486-0

9786612524868

1-4094-0112-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ThelenTatjana

HaukanesHaldis

Disciplina

306.87409/04

Soggetti

Children

Parenting

Parent and child

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Parenting After the Century of the Child: Introduction; 2 Parenthood and Childhood: Debates within the Social Sciences; Part I: Travelling Ideals about Relatedness, Family and Parenting Obligations; 3 What is a Good Mother? Historical Shifts, Divergent Models in Urban Japan; 4 No School without Foster Families in Northern Benin: A Social Historical Approach; 5 Growing up Nuclear? Young Czechs' and Tunisians' Visionsof Family, Parenting and Gender Roles; Part II: Negotiating Responsibilities in Education and Child Welfare Institutions

6 Child Welfare, Biopower and Mestizo Relatedness in Quito, Ecuador7 'In the Best Interests of the Child': Intergenerational Legacies of Past Aboriginal; 8 Privatizing Parenthood - Modernizing Childhood? Paradoxes of School Reform in Eastern Germany; 9 Representations of Parenting Practices of Native and Immigrant Families; Part III:



Translating International Legislation to Local Settings; 10 Custody and Coming of Age: Three American Cases; 11 Child Rights or Wrongs: Dilemmas in Implementing Support for Children in the Kilimanjaro Region; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on the latest research around the world, this book examines ideas on parenthood and the 'globalization' of childhood to provide new insights into the dynamics and ambivalences involved in their simultaneous reframing. This truly global volume will appeal to anthropologists and sociologists with interests in gender, childhood studies and the sociology of the family.