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Raising America : experts, parents, and a century of advice about children, Ann Hulbert

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"In this inquiry into America's preoccupation with raising children, Ann Hulbert blends biography and critical analysis to probe the personal dramas, the scientific claims, and the social visions of a succession of experts who during the twentieth century aimed to make a science of child rearing. She describes how these pediatricians and psychologists came to be popular advisers, and explores the origins and outcome of their ambitious quest to predict and perfect children's futures, and to solve the dilemmas of modern mothers and of families in flux." "Raising America is an account of how a hundred years of expert advice clearly failed to ease modern child-raising anxieties. It makes clear that the advisers, with their shifting formulas and dogmas, in fact proved to be unnerving. Yet as their stories reveal, they have also been enlightening, holding up an intimate mirror to the rising social and psychological expectations and tensions of an unsettled century."--BOOK JACKET
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
1 online resource (x, 450 pages
Contents
  • The Birth of a Science
  • The Century of the Child
  • Two Experts Grow Up
  • Infant Regimens, Adolescent Passions
  • Psychological Leaps
  • The Era (and Errors) of the Parent
  • The Misbehaviorist
  • The Anatomist of Normalcy
  • Identity Crisis
  • The Awkward Age of the Expert
  • The Therapist
  • The Moralists
  • Psychological Limits
  • All in the Family
  • Ministers, Mentors, and Managers
  • What to Expect from the Experts
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Raising America : experts, parents, and a century of advice about children
Title
Raising America
Title remainder
experts, parents, and a century of advice about children
Statement of responsibility
Ann Hulbert
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"In this inquiry into America's preoccupation with raising children, Ann Hulbert blends biography and critical analysis to probe the personal dramas, the scientific claims, and the social visions of a succession of experts who during the twentieth century aimed to make a science of child rearing. She describes how these pediatricians and psychologists came to be popular advisers, and explores the origins and outcome of their ambitious quest to predict and perfect children's futures, and to solve the dilemmas of modern mothers and of families in flux." "Raising America is an account of how a hundred years of expert advice clearly failed to ease modern child-raising anxieties. It makes clear that the advisers, with their shifting formulas and dogmas, in fact proved to be unnerving. Yet as their stories reveal, they have also been enlightening, holding up an intimate mirror to the rising social and psychological expectations and tensions of an unsettled century."--BOOK JACKET
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DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Hulbert, Ann
Dewey number
649/.1/0973
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
HQ769
LC item number
.H825 2003
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
NLM call number
  • 2003 G-317
  • WS 11 AA1
NLM item number
H912r 2003
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  • Child rearing
  • Parenting
  • Child Rearing
  • History, 20th Century
  • Parenting
  • Pedagogiek
  • Opvoeding
  • Ouderschap
  • Opvoedingsvoorlichting
  • Éducation des enfants
  • Rôle parental
  • Kind
  • Erziehung
  • USA
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Raising America : experts, parents, and a century of advice about children, Ann Hulbert
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-434) and index
Contents
The Birth of a Science -- The Century of the Child -- Two Experts Grow Up -- Infant Regimens, Adolescent Passions -- Psychological Leaps -- The Era (and Errors) of the Parent -- The Misbehaviorist -- The Anatomist of Normalcy -- Identity Crisis -- The Awkward Age of the Expert -- The Therapist -- The Moralists -- Psychological Limits -- All in the Family -- Ministers, Mentors, and Managers -- What to Expect from the Experts
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
1 online resource (x, 450 pages
Form of item
online
Other physical details
illustrations)
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1036833423
Label
Raising America : experts, parents, and a century of advice about children, Ann Hulbert
Link
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-434) and index
Contents
The Birth of a Science -- The Century of the Child -- Two Experts Grow Up -- Infant Regimens, Adolescent Passions -- Psychological Leaps -- The Era (and Errors) of the Parent -- The Misbehaviorist -- The Anatomist of Normalcy -- Identity Crisis -- The Awkward Age of the Expert -- The Therapist -- The Moralists -- Psychological Limits -- All in the Family -- Ministers, Mentors, and Managers -- What to Expect from the Experts
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
1 online resource (x, 450 pages
Form of item
online
Other physical details
illustrations)
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1036833423

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