Since the beginning of the twentieth century, millions of anxious parents have turned to child-rearing manuals for reassurance. Instead, however, they have often found yet more cause for worry. In this rich social history, Ann Hulbert analyzes one hundred years of shifting trends in advice and discovers an ongoing battle between two main approaches: a child-centered focus on warmly encouraging development versus a sterner parent-centered emphasis on instilling discipline. She examines how pediatrics, psychology, and neuroscience have fueled the debates but failed to offer definitive answers....
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, millions of anxious parents have turned to child-rearing manuals for reassurance. Instead, however, they...
This is a biography of the writer, Jean Stafford. She is often grouped with that generation of writers who include Robert Lowell (to whom she was famously married), John Berryman, Delmore Schwartz and others. This work shows how her charmed, but painful life informed her work.
This is a biography of the writer, Jean Stafford. She is often grouped with that generation of writers who include Robert Lowell (to whom she was famo...
