Description
Book SynopsisNow in its second edition, Parenting Culture Studies seeks to understand how parenting is taken as a particular mode of childrearing that reflects broader social trends. Ten years after the initial volume's groundbreaking publication, the authors once again closely examine how the main aspects of parenting have been established, explored, and critically evaluated. Chapters revisit phenomena such as intensive parenting and politics around parenting, as well as controversial issues including policing pregnant women's bodies and parental determinism. In addition to updates throughout the volume, including those addressing literature that has built from the book’s original publication, the book features a new third part discussing parents dealing with risk assessment, school closures, contradictory care arrangements, and vaccine hesitancy during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Table of ContentsForeword (Updated)
1. Introduction
Part 1: Parenting Culture2. Intensive Parenting and the Expansion of Parenting3. Experts and Parenting Culture4. The Politics of Parenting 5. Who Cares for Children? The Problem of Intergenerational Contact
Part 2: Case Studies in Parental Determinism6. Policing Pregnancy: The Pregnant Woman Who Drinks7. The Problem of Attachment: The Detached Parent8. Babies Brains and Parenting Policy: The Insensitive Mother9. Intensive Fatherhood? The (Un)involved Dad10. The Double Bind of Parenting Culture: Helicopter Parents and Cotton Wool Kids
Part 3: Parenting and the Pandemic11. Parenting’ after Covid-19: When the Quantity of ‘Quality time’ Becomes Untenable12. From Safeguarding to Childism? Covid-19 and the School Closures Debate13. Pregnancy and Vaccination: The Precautionary Principle and Parenting Culture in Covid Times
14. Conclusion
