Parenting the Crisis: The Cultural Politics of Parent-Blame

ISBN-13: 9781447325062 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 216 str.

Tracey Jensen

Opis

This book examines how pathologising ideas of failing, chaotic and dysfunctional families create a powerful consensus that Britain is in the grip of a `parent crisis' and are used to justify increasingly punitive state policies.

Spis treści

Introduction Mothercraft to Mumsnet The Cultural Industry of Parent Blame Parenting – with feeling Parenting in austere times: warmth and wealth Weaponising parent-blame in post-welfare Britain Epilogue: ‘Mummy Maybot’: a new age of authoritarian neoliberalism