Narcissistic Parenting in an Insecure World : : A History of Parenting Culture 1920s to Present / / Harry Hendrick.

In this provocative history of parenting, Harry Hendrick analyses the social and economic reasons behind parenting trends. He shows how broader social changes, including neoliberalism, feminism, the collapse of the social-democratic ideal, and the 'new behaviourism', have led to the rise o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • About the author
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • The origins of social democracy’s family ideal: 1920s–1940s
  • The re-imagining of adult–child relations between the wars
  • Wartime influences: from the evacuation to the Children Act 1948
  • Characteristics of the ‘Golden Age’: 1940s–early 1970s
  • Rebuilding the family: 1940s–1950s
  • The ‘long sixties’: 1958–1974
  • Influences and examples from the USA
  • Social science and American liberalism
  • Parental narcissism in neoliberal times: 1970s to the present
  • Aspects of neoliberalism: political, economic and social realignments
  • Laying the foundations for parental narcissism
  • The New Labour era, and beyond: narcissism comes of age
  • Therapeutic reflections
  • Narcissism and the ‘politics of recognition’: concepts of the late-modern self
  • Index