Mothers and Their Children: A Feminist Sociology of ChildrearingThis volume presents a fresh approach to the analysis of childrearing. By focusing on mothers' own understandings of their childrearing, the author reveals how differences in childrearing are rooted in fundamental ideas about the nature of social life and the place of the individual and the family within it. Broad cultural concepts of family, individuality and the nature of childhood are discussed. The author analyzes the implications of mothers' ideas about these for key childrearing preoccupations of time, discipline and the independence of children. An important theme that emerges is the diversity behind the image of the 'ordinary family'. Drawing on empirical evidence of mothers' concerns and understandings of childrearing, the author illustrates how issues of power and the public/private divide are negotiated in the daily lives of mothers and their children. |
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Contenido
The Feminist Study of Childrearing | 27 |
Individuals Families and Children | 46 |
Friends and Relations | 74 |
Portraits of Childrearing in Four Middle Income | 93 |
Fitting in around the Children | 116 |
Overview of the Portraits | 136 |
Childrearing Philosophies in Action | 163 |
Sociology and Childrearing Reconsidered | 189 |
Further Details of the Sample | 214 |
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Mothers and Their Children: A Feminist Sociology of Childrearing Jane Ribbens,Jane Ribbens McCarthy Vista de fragmentos - 1994 |
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Mothers and Their Children: A Feminist Sociology of Childrearing Jane Ribbens,Jane Ribbens McCarthy Sin vista previa disponible - 1994 |
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Página 7 - Much of developmental psychology, as it now exists, is the science of the strange behaviour of children in strange situations with strange adults for the briefest periods of time
Página 20 - thus accomplishes what (in hindsight of course) may be seen as the most important confidence trick that society plays on the individual - to make appear as necessity what is in fact a bundle of contingencies, and thus to make meaningful the accident of his
Página 17 - This supposition does not necessarily assume that parents consciously train their children to meet future occupational requirements, it may simply be that their own occupational experiences have significantly affected parents' conceptions of what is desirable
Página 23 - the torrents of threat and cajolery neither impinge on the feelings of parental affection, nor are meant as signs of rejection. As one mother explained to her child, "We hit you because we love you"
Página 21 - the immediate apprehension or interpretation of an objective event as expressing meaning, that is, as a manifestation of another's subjective processes which thereby becomes subjectively meaningful to myself (Berger and Luckmann
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| Título | Mothers and Their Children: A Feminist Sociology of Childrearing |
| Autor | Jane Ribbens |
| Editor | SAGE, 1994 |
| ISBN | 1446233073, 9781446233078 |
| Largo | 240 páginas |
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