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Informationen zum Autor Rutherford, Markella B Klappentext Adult Supervision Required considers the contradictory ways in which contemporary American culture has imagined individual autonomy for parents and children. Using popular parenting advice literature as a springboard for a broader sociological analysis of the American family, Markella B. Rutherford explores how our increasingly psychological conception of the family might be jeopardising our appreciation for parents' and children's public lives and civil liberties. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Take It with a Grain of Salt: How Parents Encounter Experts and Advice2 Seen and Heard: Children’s Growing Freedom at Home3 Keeping Tabs on Kids: Children’s Shrinking Public Autonomy4 Mixed Messages about Responsibility: Children’s Duties and the Work of Parenting5 Psychology’s Child: Emotional Autonomy and the Privatization of the Self6 ConclusionAppendix AAppendix BNotesBibliographyIndex
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Take It with a Grain of Salt: How Parents Encounter Experts and Advice
2 Seen and Heard: Children’s Growing Freedom at Home
3 Keeping Tabs on Kids: Children’s Shrinking Public Autonomy
4 Mixed Messages about Responsibility: Children’s Duties and the Work of Parenting
5 Psychology’s Child: Emotional Autonomy and the Privatization of the Self
6 Conclusion
Appendix A
Appendix B
Notes
Bibliography
Index
