Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children
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- Synopsis
- Hulbert uses biography and critical analysis to examine the personal dramas, scientific theories, and social visions of 20th-century child-rearing experts including L. Emmett Holt, G. Stanley Hall, and Benjamin Spock. Hulbert explores the political and social forces that influenced child-care experts, describes the shifting (and often confusing) formulas and dogmas of their ambitious quest to predict and perfect children's futures, and concludes that a hundred years of expert advice have failed to ease modern child-rearing anxieties. Hulbert is the author of Annotation. (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Copyright:
- 2003
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780307773395
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780375701221
- Publisher:
- Vintage Books
- Date of Addition:
- 01/12/11
- Copyrighted By:
- Ann Hulbert
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Parenting and Family, Sociology
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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