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Narcissistic parenting in an insecure world : a history of parenting culture 1920s to present /

Harry Hendrick shows how broader social changes, including neoliberalism, feminism, the collapse of the socialdemocratic ideal, and the 'new behaviourism', have led to the rise of the anxious and narcissistic parent, In this provocative history of parenting.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hendrick, Harry (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The argument
  • The themes
  • The broader context
  • Some methodological considerations
  • pt. One The origins of social democracy's family ideal: 1920s
  • 1940s
  • Introduction
  • One. The re-imagining of adult-child relations between the wars
  • The Paradox of the Inter-War Years: `We Danced All Night' Through What Was A `Morbid Age'
  • Inter-war science: children's bodies and minds and child rearing
  • Heroes of behaviourism: F. Truby King and J.B. Watson
  • Susan Isaacs and the rejection of behaviourism
  • The child guidance movement
  • The influence of progressive education
  • Looking ahead
  • Two. Wartime influences: from the evacuation to the Children Act 1948
  • The evacuation
  • The `Problem Family' and Social Democracy
  • The Children Act 1948
  • pt. Two Characteristics of the `Golden Age': 1940s
  • early 1970s
  • Introduction
  • Three. Rebuilding the family: 1940s
  • 1950s
  • `To make men and women better than they are' (Herbert Morrison)
  • John Bowlby and D.W. Winnicott: imperfect visionaries
  • `Adjusting the bonds of love'
  • `Home is Where We Start From': The Home As A `Holding Environment'
  • Four. The `Long Sixties': 1958
  • 1974
  • Parent-child relations and the changing perception of children
  • Dethroning Bowlby?
  • Second-Wave Feminism: The `Captive Wife'
  • Children's Rights and the Beginning of the End of `Progressive' Education
  • Some left-wing attitudes toward the family'
  • pt. Three Influences and examples from the USA
  • Introduction
  • Five. Social science and American liberalism
  • Parenting democracy's children
  • The `Great Society': The `War on Poverty' and the `Will to Empower'
  • The `New Behaviourism'
  • Saving liberal individualism: Diana Baumrind and the Invention of `Authoritative' Parenting
  • pt. Four Parental narcissism in neoliberal times: 1970s to the present
  • Introduction
  • Six. Aspects of neoliberalism: political, economic and social realignment
  • From the `Golden Age' to Modern Times
  • The Tribulations of `Post Democracy': The Rise of `Political Disenchantment'
  • Neoliberalism
  • Narcissism in the nursery: feminism, neoliberalism and the social liberationist agenda
  • Seven. Laying the foundations for parental narcissism
  • The New Right emerges: Sir Keith Joseph and the `Cycle of Deprivation'
  • The New Right, the Labour Party and the remoralising of Britain
  • The `New Behaviourism' and Problematising Children's Behaviour
  • Eight. The New Labour era, and beyond: narcissism comes of age
  • Neoliberal Children: The `Iconic' Child As Human Capital
  • The discipline of ASBO (anti-social behaviour order) culture: breeding childism
  • Parenting in New Labour's neoliberal universe
  • The ethics of the parenting programmes
  • Childism unveiled: Supernanny
  • the dominatrix in the nursery
  • pt. Five Therapeutic reflections
  • Introduction
  • Nine. Narcissism and the `Politics of Recognition': Concepts of the Late-Modern Self
  • A Late-Modern Point of Departure: The `Postsocialist' Condition and the Politics of Redistribution/Recognition
  • The self and identity politics
  • Individualisation, Identity and the Self: `A Fate, Not a Choice'
  • The therapeutic culture.