Parenting the crisis : the cultural politics of parent-blame

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This book examines how pathologising ideas of failing, chaotic and dysfunctional families create a powerful consensus that Britain is in the grip of a 'parent crisis' and are used to justify increasingly punitive state policies.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jensen, Tracey (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL : Policy Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Parenting > Great Britain.
Child rearing > Great Britain.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Family and Relationships.
Child rearing
Parenting
Great Britain
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • PARENTING THE CRISIS
  • Contents
  • About the author
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 'Where are the parents?'
  • Crisis talk and crisis figures
  • Neoliberal crisis: policing to parenting
  • Neoliberal citizenship and the eugenic imagination
  • Gendering parent-blame
  • The structure of this book
  • 2. Mothercraft to Mumsnet
  • 'The mother of all elections'
  • The rise of mothercraft
  • Feminist anger at the experts
  • Celebrating the advised mother
  • Postfeminist parent pedagogy
  • Mumsnet and neoliberal motherhood
  • 3. The cultural industry of parent-blame
  • Imagining a 'parenting deficit'
  • Enter Supernanny
  • The 'devil version of Mary Poppins'
  • Standing up to (and sitting down with) Supernanny
  • Distinction through parent pedagogy
  • New Labour's civilising project
  • 4. Parenting
  • with feeling
  • An 'army of Supernannies'
  • Intimacy expertise: the political is personal
  • What kind of parent? 'Pure relationships' and the sensitive mother
  • Parental subjects
  • Reinventing 'tough love'
  • Tough love in the supernanny state
  • 5. Parenting in austere times: warmth and wealth
  • An 'ordinary' family
  • 'Broken Britain': public spending as waste
  • Blitz spirit and ration romances
  • Austerity is good for you! The happy housewife
  • Permanent austerity
  • 6. Weaponising parent-blame in post-welfare Britain
  • Crafting commonsense: the Philpott case
  • Weaponising policy: the politics of disgust
  • Televising the 'benefit brood'
  • A disgust-consensus: from nanny state to daddy state
  • The end of entitlement
  • 7. Epilogue: 'Mummy Maybot': a new age of authoritarian neoliberalism
  • The vicar's daughter
  • 'Bringing the poor to heel': the future of social insecurity
  • References
  • Index.

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