Parenting after the century of the child
Subtitle: travelling ideals, institutional negotiations and individual responses
By: edited by Tatjana Thelen and Haldis Haukanes.
Contributors: Thelen, Tatjana.; Haukanes, Haldis.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409401117; 9781409401124
Subjects: Childhood -- Cross-cultural studies; Parenting -- Cross-cultural studies; Parent and child -- Cross-cultural studies; Childhood -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Parenting after the century of the child : introduction / Tatjana Thelen and Haldis Haukanes; title: Parenthood and childhood : debates within the social sciences / Haldis Haukanes and Tatjana Thelen; title: What is a good mother? Historical shifts, divergent models in urban Japan / Susan D. Holloway, Yoko Yamamoto and Sawako Suzuki; title: No school without foster families in northern Benin : a social historical approach / Erdmute Alber; title: Growing up nuclear? Young Czechs' and Tunisians' visions of family, parenting and gender roles / Haldis Haukanes and Marit Tjomsland; title: Child welfare, biopower and mestizo relatedness in Quito, Ecuador / Esben Leifsen; title: "In the best interests of the child" : intergenerational legacies of past aboriginal child removal policies in Australia / Tiffany McComsey; title: "Privatizing parenthood"-modernizing childhood? Paradoxes of school reform in Eastern Germany / Tatjana Thelen; title: Representations of parenting practices of native and immigrant families in institutional care service settings in Barcelona / Marta Bertrán Tarrés; title: Custody and coming of age : three American cases / Randy Frances Kandel and Anne Griffiths; title: Child rights or wrongs : dilemmas in implementing support for children in the Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania, in the era of globalised AIDs approaches / Mai Bente Snipstad, Gro Th. Lie and Dagfinn Winje.