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Raising baby by the book : the education of American mothers /

"In this study of the education of American mothers, Julia Grant shows how the tides of opinion about proper child care have shifted from the early 1800s, when maternal associations discussed biblical and secular theories of child rearing, through the 1950s, when books like Spock's Baby an...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grant, Julia, 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, ©1998.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Fitting their nurture to their nature : the emergence of education for motherhood
  • Divine motherhood versus intelligent parenthood : women's organizations and the child-study campaign
  • "What is the matter with our children today?" : race, class, and ethnicity in the parent education movement
  • Bringing science to the people : delivering the message of scientific motherhood
  • Caught between common sense and science : mothers' responses to child development expertise
  • Democracy begins at home : the practice and politics of parenting in the 1930s and 1940s
  • Dear Doctor : the impact of the baby book on post-World War II mothers.