1.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00272168

Titolo

The idea of progress : a collection of readings / selected by Frederick J. Teggart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley ; Los Angeles, : University of California Press, 1949

Edizione

[Revised edition]

Descrizione fisica

xi, 457 p. ; 24 cm.

Disciplina

303.44

Soggetti

PROGRESSO-TEORIE

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968057403321

Autore

Halley Jean O'Malley <1967->

Titolo

Boundaries of touch : parenting and adult-child intimacy / / Jean O'Malley Halley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2007

ISBN

1-283-04400-5

9786613044006

0-252-09145-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Disciplina

155.6/46

Soggetti

Touch - Psychological aspects

Boundaries - Psychological aspects

Parent and child

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-194) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Discussing issues of parent-child contact ranging from breastfeeding and sleeping arrangements 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 States. 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. In addition to contemporary periodicals and self-help books on child rearing, Halley uses information gathered from interviews she conducted with mothers ranging in age from twenty-eight to seventy-three. Throughout, she reveals how the parent-child relationship, far from being a private or benign subject, continues as a highly contested, politicized affair of keen public interest.