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Liberation's Children
Kay S. Hymowitz
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Description for Liberation's Children
Hardback. This work provides a description of contemporary American culture - how adults teach it, how children receive it, and how it stamps today's American kids with their unique character. It takes the measure of a culture that leaves children with a loss of deep connection, civility, and moral clarity. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSP1; VFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 182 x 22. Weight in Grams: 363.
What is life like for children coming of age in an era after feminism, after the sexual revolution? Kay Hymowitz explores the predicament of a generation growing up in a world where adults lavish them with Tommy Hilfigers, Gameboys, and Disneyland vacations but don't know how to provide them with the ordinary truths that give life meaning. Without a coherent moral and intellectual order to pass on to the young, Ms. Hymowitz argues, parents, teachers, school principals, the media, and the child-rearing experts know only how to celebrate the individual child, "empowering" him to find his own way even as ... Read more
What is life like for children coming of age in an era after feminism, after the sexual revolution? Kay Hymowitz explores the predicament of a generation growing up in a world where adults lavish them with Tommy Hilfigers, Gameboys, and Disneyland vacations but don't know how to provide them with the ordinary truths that give life meaning. Without a coherent moral and intellectual order to pass on to the young, Ms. Hymowitz argues, parents, teachers, school principals, the media, and the child-rearing experts know only how to celebrate the individual child, "empowering" him to find his own way even as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566634953
SKU
V9781566634953
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About Kay S. Hymowitz
Kay Hymowitz is the author of Ready or Not: Why Treating Children as Small Adults Endangers Their Future and Ours. She has written for the Wall Street Journal, the New Republic, and the New York Times, and is a contributing editor of City Journal.
Reviews for Liberation's Children
This book is both engaging and brutal as social observation...
Paula S. Fass
The Review of Higher Education
An informed, intelligent and very powerful critique...Written with wit, with pointed examples and with passion. A very important book.
Judith Wallerstein, Ph.D. Adults...should take note of Hymowitz's observations about what 'liberation' has wrought.
William J. Bennett, former ... Read more
Paula S. Fass
The Review of Higher Education
An informed, intelligent and very powerful critique...Written with wit, with pointed examples and with passion. A very important book.
Judith Wallerstein, Ph.D. Adults...should take note of Hymowitz's observations about what 'liberation' has wrought.
William J. Bennett, former ... Read more