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12%OFFJean Halley - Boundaries of Touch: Parenting and Adult-Child Intimacy - 9780252075810 - V9780252075810
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Boundaries of Touch: Parenting and Adult-Child Intimacy

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Description for Boundaries of Touch: Parenting and Adult-Child Intimacy Paperback. A history of the shifting and conflicting ideas about when, where, and how we should touch our children Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
A history of the shifting and conflicting ideas about when, where, and how we should touch our children

Discussing issues of parent-child contact ranging from breastfeeding to sexual abuse, Jean O'Malley Halley traces the evolution of mainstream ideas about touching between adults and children over the course of the twentieth century in the United States. Debates over when a child should be weaned and whether to allow a child to sleep in the parent's bed reveal deep differences in conceptions of appropriate adult-child contact.

Boundaries of Touch shows how arguments about adult-child touch have been politicized, simplified, and bifurcated into "naturalist" ... Read more

In addition to contemporary periodicals and self-help books on child rearing, Halley uses information gathered from interviews she conducted with mothers ranging in age from twenty-eight to seventy-three. Throughout, she reveals how the parent-child relationship, far from being a private or benign subject, continues as a highly contested, politicized affair of keen public interest.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252075810
SKU
V9780252075810
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Jean Halley
Jean O'Malley Halley is an assistant professor in the Sociology and Anthropology Department at Wagner College in New York City and the assistant editor (with Patricia Ticineto Clough) of The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social. She is also the mother of two children.

Reviews for Boundaries of Touch: Parenting and Adult-Child Intimacy
"Raising children is such daunting work. Medical experts, parents, peers, mass media outlets, and activists engage in the production of the boundaries of what is appropriate when raising children. Halley's Boundaries of Touch is a groundbreaking and exhaustively researched analysis of human adult-child touch. With great attention to historical and cultural detail, Halley interprets how multiple, often conflicting, groups claim ... Read more

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