Parenting the Crisis: The Cultural Politics of Parent-Blame
Author:   Tracey Jensen
Publisher:   Policy Press
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9781447325055


Pages:   216
Publication Date:   28 March 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Tracey Jensen
Publisher:   Policy Press
Imprint:   Policy Press
ISBN:  

9781447325055


ISBN 10:   1447325052
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   28 March 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Mothercraft to Mumsnet The Cultural Industry of Parent Blame Parenting – with feeling Parenting in austere times: warmth and wealth Weaponising parent-blame in post-welfare Britain Epilogue: `Mummy Maybot’: a new age of authoritarian neoliberalism

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A timely, energetic, and engaging critique of the presumptions behind parent-blaming in culture and policy-making. Dr. Jennie Bristow, Canterbury Christ Church University A valuable contribution to the debate about the significance of 'parenting' and an educative case study in the social construction of the 'bad parent'. Dr. Jan Macvarish, University of Kent


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Tracey Jensen is Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Lancaster, UK. Her research interests are concerned with: the reproduction of inequalities and divisions through and across identity categories; policy and popular debates of social mobility and immobility; and parenting culture as it travels across different media and cultural sites and manifests in policy.

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