Parenting Culture Studies

Now 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.

Includes case studies on attachment and helicopter parenting to assess the socio-cultural roots of parenting debates Reviews the literature around intensive parenting, parenting experts and the politics of parenting Discusses intensive parenting, education and vaccination in pregnancy to show the pandemic's impact on parenting culture

Autorentext

Ellie Lee is Director of the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies and Professor of Family and Parenting Research at University of Kent, UK. Jennie Bristow is a Reader in Sociology at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. Charlotte Faircloth is Associate Professor of Social Science in the UCL Social Research Institute at University College London, UK. Jan Macvarish is Visiting Research Fellow in the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies at the University of Kent, UK.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Intensive Parenting and the Expansion of Parenting. - Chapter 3: Experts and Parenting Culture.- Chapter 4: The Politics of Parenting.- Chapter 5: Who Cares for Children? The Problem of Intergenerational Contact.- Chapter 6: Policing Pregnancy: The Pregnant Woman Who Drinks.- Chapter 7: The Problem of Attachment: The Detached Parent.- Chapter 8: Babies Brains and Parenting Policy: The Insensitive Mother.- Chapter 9: Intensive Fatherhood? The (Un)involved Dad.- Chapter 10: The Double Bind of Parenting Culture: Helicopter Parents and Cotton Wool Kids.- Chapter 11: Parenting' after Covid-19: When the Quantity of 'Quality time' Becomes Untenable.- Chapter 12: From Safeguarding to Childism? Covid-19 and the School Closures Debate.- Chapter 13: Pregnancy and Vaccination: The Precautionary Principle and Parenting Culture in Covid Times.- Chapter 14: Conclusion.