Parenting Culture Studies

• Autore: Lee Ellie
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024; ©2023
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (390 pages)
• Disciplina: 306.874
• Altri autori: BristowJennie FairclothCharlotte MacvarishJan
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- Part I: Parenting Culture -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 'Parenting': What's New? -- Risk Culture and Risk Consciousness -- Risk as Untoward Possibility not Probability -- Risk as Free-Floating Anxiety -- Risk Consciousness and Morality -- Demoralization and Policing -- 'Parenting' as a Social Construct -- A Note on the Structure of This Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Intensive Parenting and the Expansion of Parenting -- Introduction -- Intensive Parenting -- The 'New Momism' and the 'Mommy Wars', Total Motherhood, Concerted Cultivation -- Different Performances of the Cultural Script -- Gender -- Class -- Cultural Variation -- Parenting Out of Control? -- A Social History of 'Childhood' -- Childhood in Crisis? -- The Inflation of the Parenting Role -- Risky Parents -- Intensive Parenting and Adult Identity -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: Experts and Parenting Culture -- Introduction -- The Rise of the Child Expert in the Nineteenth Century: The Search for Order -- Post World War II: Attaching Children to Their Mothers and the Need for 'Child-Centredness' -- Parenting Experts in the Twenty-First Century: Targeting Parents to Learn Skills -- Warnings to Parents, 'Support' for Parenting, and the Problem of Shared Authority -- Living with Shared Authority: Parental Experience of Parenting Experts -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4: The Politics of Parenting -- Introduction -- From 'Implicit' to 'Explicit' Family Policy -- From 'the Family' to 'Families': De-Moralized Family Policy -- The Increasing Certainty of Policy: 'Research Shows' -- Parenting the Parents: 'Breaking the Cycle' and Parenting Support for All -- Sure Start -- Every Child Matters (ECM) -- The Family Nurse Partnership -- Parent Training for All -- Parenting Policy in Europe. ; Politicized Parenting as a Reordering of Privacy -- Conclusions: The 'Collateral Damage' of Broader and Deeper Intervention -- References -- Chapter 5: Who Cares for Children? The Problem of Intergenerational Contact -- Introduction -- Megan's Law -- The Vetting and Barring Scheme -- Risk, Regulation, and 'No-Touch' Policies -- The Paradox of No-Touch Policies -- Defensive Practice and the Erosion of Adult Solidarity -- Conclusions -- References -- Part II: Case Studies in Parental Determinism -- Chapter 6: Policing Pregnancy: The Pregnant Woman Who Drinks -- Introduction -- The Imperative to Abstain -- Pregnancy, Alcohol, and the Expansion of Risk -- Science, Culture, and the Separation of the Woman from Her Pregnancy -- Policing, Self-Policing, and the Turn to 'Other-Surveillance' -- Living with Risk -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: The Problem of 'Attachment': The 'Detached' Parent -- Introduction: The Emergence of Problematic Attachment -- Attachment Theory and Its Expansions -- The Bonding Mystique -- 'Attachment' in Contemporary Parenting Culture -- Advocating for 'Attachment Parenting' -- Accounting for Attachment -- Evolutionary Evidence -- Scientific Evidence -- Attachment in Policy -- Tribalization -- Assessing the Advocacy -- Problematizing 'Evolutionary' Parenting -- Problematizing 'Science' -- Unrealistic Attachments -- Push-back? -- Conclusions -- Note -- References -- Chapter 8: Babies' Brains and Parenting Policy: The Insensitive Mother -- Introduction -- Optimizing and Warning -- Brains at Risk -- Brain Claims and Policy -- Accounting for the Appetite for Brain Claims -- The Critique of Brain Claims -- Scientism Not Science -- Individualizing Social Problems -- Writing Children Off -- Building a Healthy Brain -- Conclusion: Reinforcing Intensive Parenting -- References. ; Chapter 9: Intensive Fatherhood? The (Un)involved Dad -- Introduction: New Fatherhood? -- Ambiguous Authority -- Fragmenting Fatherhood: Breadwinning and the New Dad -- Work-Life Balance: Gender Equality or Intensive Fathering? -- Fostering the New Father in Policy -- Dad-Proofing and Avoiding Exclusion -- The New Model Father -- Men's Experiences: Does Policy Miss the Point? -- Resisting Intensive Fathering? -- New Directions -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 10: The Double Bind of Parenting Culture: Helicopter Parents and Cotton Wool Kids -- Introduction -- Cotton Wool Kids -- Helicopter Parents -- Resistance to Intensive Parenting: Navigating the Contradictions -- The Diseasing of Childhood -- Ambivalent Adulthood and Institutional 'Coddling' -- Conclusion: The Double Bind of Parenting Culture -- Note -- References -- Part III: Parenting and the Pandemic -- Chapter 11: 'Parenting' After Covid-19: When the Quantity of 'Quality Time' Becomes Untenable -- Introduction -- Covid and the UK Policy Response -- Parenting and Lockdown -- Familiar Challenges Exacerbated -- The Privatization of the Parenting Role: Educational Needs -- The Expansion of the Parenting Role: Accounting for New Risks -- Intensive Parenting Ideals and 'Falling Short': Class and Gender -- Pushing Back Against Intensive Parenting? -- Conclusions -- Note -- References -- Chapter 12: From Safeguarding to Childism? Covid-19 and the School Closures Debate -- Introduction -- School Closures: Three Narratives -- Narrative 1: Competing Risks -- Narrative 2: Childism and Discrimination -- Narrative 3: The Educational Impact -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 13: Pregnancy and Vaccination: The Precautionary Principle and Parenting Culture in Covid Times -- Introduction -- Intensive Motherhood and Vaccine Hesitancy -- Vaccination, Pregnancy, and Precautionary Thinking. ; Pertussis and Influenza -- Covid-19 Vaccination -- Framing Precaution in the UK News Media -- Policy Changes: Evidence, Vaccine Safety, and Covid Risk -- Covid Risks and Typifying Stories -- Vaccine Hesitancy and Mixed Messages -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 14: Conclusion -- The Social History of Parental Determinism -- Comparative Parenting Culture Studies -- The Problem of Generations -- References -- Appendix: Data Set for Media Analysis (Chapter 13) -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Parenting Culture Studies
• ISBN: 3-031-44156-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910799251103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II